[Tom Line]

I for one hope they remember that while many newer langauges are nice, they are not taught at many high schools.

Visual Basic and C are basic languages that most schools will teach (if they teach anything). Going too far afield with the language (C# or C++ comes to mind) will force quite a few folks to have to try and learn a new langauge. I don't think that would be in the best interest of the competition.

Simple functionality improvements like wireless uploading to the Robot OI would be an incredible step forward in usability.

The option of storing several different compiled versions on board would be nice at times.

I actually appreciate the limited memory size and limited processing power. How many folks were forced to learning something new because doing floating point and trig killed the processor? It also prepares them for the state of the industry in most manufacturing environments. Finally, it forces folks towards elegant programming - clean code without a lot of garbage.