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[Nate Smith]

Many times these past few years, I have heard the discussion raised regarding moving the robot programming language away from PBASIC, perhaps to something more "real world," to use wording from an above post. However, I got to thinking about the pros and cons of PBASIC vs. other languages, and started to think that for what we're doing, we may not have it that bad off. In a nutshell, what we need a processor that allows direct I/O either on a pin or other level to the other processors on the RC. Based on my experience, any higher level languages try to abstract themselves from the hardware as much as possible, which may actually make our lives harder, rather than easier. So PBASIC, even with it's limitations, may be the best for what we're doing...any comments on this?