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Re: Rumor Panic

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Originally Posted by Damien1247 View Post
Having to code the entire robot in assembly. That would scare me.
Back in the day (1981), my first computer was an Intel SDK-86 and I didn't have the cash for the assembler, so I wrote my programs on paper and generated the op codes by hand. If a knucklehead like me can learn programming this way, I suspect most everyone else can too. (mental note to self: talk to Dave Lavery about awarding 2009 game bonus points for teams that code up in machine language <- evil grin).

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