[djcapelis]

Indeed, new languages are always good. Speaking of which, seeing as you seem to have an obsession with Delphi, have you tried Kylix?

It's the companion language expect it works on a decent Operating System. Linux, though I suppose I shouldn't start a conversation on that, so please ignore the offensive comment to windows somewhat.

Also, I've been wondering about the availablity of Linux tools for the new language, if it's some latest little spin-off of BASIC will FIRST screw over all the Linux users yet again?

A lot of work has been put into Linux-based development tools for PBasic and STAMP, partially and mainly due to this competition, I suppose the efforts can just be done with the new language, if it comes with a tokenizer/instruction library, if that's even needed.

I suppose it's too early to speculate, but does anyone know if I can contact FIRST to explain the whole situation and implore them to choose something which is already used enough where it supports Linux for dev of it out-of-box?

I mean... after all... most of the serious chips run linux and are developed on linux, I understand you can't completely move people over, but it would be nice to have the option to actually use the system that you'd likely use in the real world.