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Originally Posted by JBotAlan
My autonomous updating function is named AUT_DoScaryStuff().
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My roommate and I are considering patenting* the idea that we call "negative programming". People always say that computers only do exactly what you tell them to, but we've smashed that paradigm and moved on to telling it what not to do. We competed in the Mobot competition at Carnegie Mellon last year, which is essentially an outdoor line-tracking contest. Our small-wheeled robot was having some trouble getting over the bigger cracks in the sidewalk. There's also a portion of the course where the line forks and crosses over itself, and you have to make some decisions. Functions for handling these two problems were respectively named dont_get_stuck() and dont_cross(). You call dont_get_stuck(), and it doesn't get stuck. Good robot.
* I am not actually advocating software patents.