[marccenter]

Most folks have commented more on the hardware side,
so I will focus my comments on the software side.
I hope we move away from C programming and to
a graphical language like the way I have been programming for the past three years - Matlab and
Simulink. For high school students who haven't yet
been exposed to these packages, think Robolab or
NI Labview.
My professional experience at GM has enabled me to
seen us move from Motorola 6800/6801/68HC11assembly language (1982-1995), through MC68332
C (1995-2007) and now Mathlab/Simulink (2004-2007).
For those programmer's who are operating in C , that's
Great, but for me, I haven't touched pure C in the last
five years other than to work with the FIRST IFI controller.
I hope FIRST can cut a deal to give student's the tools
that we will be using in the workplace in the near future.
How may other folks out there are using the Mathworks
software productline to autocode into "C"?