[stephenthe1]

this is quite rediculous. first should atleast have microchip create a simple debugger. even one that simply checked for spelling errors (ex. c is case sensitive) and find missing semicolons and brackets. it shouldn't be that hard for them to also make it check potential values for variables to see if the value would be out of the variable's bounds. First needs to "modern-up" a little. I mean, have you seen visual studio 2003 or 2005? It needn't be as complex as visual studio, just have some of the same features. regular c isn't nearly as complicated for the purpose of programming the robots.