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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Java and Orbit Balls

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Originally Posted by Uberbots View Post
Yuck, java. The lack of pointers is a major turn-away for me.

However, for those high schools that offer AP computer science, the fact that the robot can now be programmed in java sorta bridges the learning gap a bit.
What is it that you want to do with pointers that Java's pass by reference system can't do exactly?