23-04-2009, 22:07
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 FRC #1977 (Loveland High Robotics) Team Role: Alumni
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Re: "Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"
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Originally Posted by Foster
Ruby is like Cobol, just with a different syntax. It's yet another programming language. The difference is in the libraries that you can use without writing them.
In a robot context there isn't a big advantage between Basic, C, Cobol, C, C++, Fortran, Java, Javascript, Perl or Ruby. You are doing basic math / geometry calcs, basic data in (joysticks) and data out (motors).
The problem you face in a Ruby (Java, Perl, etc) world is to get the programmers to use existing library code and to not reinvent the world.
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It's not only geometry/basic math calculations, But I agree with the fact that for most robot's that's fine.
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