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Unread 09-08-2003, 19:26
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Originally posted by FotoPlasma
What the heck?

The .NET tools we get from Microsoft (through FIRST) have nothing to do with programming the robot, at all. Also, I'm willing to bet that Microsoft donates all of their software to FIRST, free of charge. Just like the tobacco and alcohol industries, Microsoft's best strategy is to "hook 'em when they're young," and for the most part, we're pretty young.

He's referring to the fact that Parallax is forcing us all to stay in the dark ages by using a closed (mileage / definitions may vary) tokenizer, which uses one of the most limited embeded system programming language in the world. If we had access to the Basic Stamp's assembly language level, there'd be a lot less of a problem, fundamentally, with using a Basic Stamp as the programming interface to the control system.....
And after that post, someone corrected me, and I said Ok.

the tokenizer.dll is very horid, but it also gets the job done when needed....look at rbbayer's programs. Some use the tokenizer.dll (atleast 1 of them).
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