C Programing language. Is it the devil?

[jhnphm]

Originally Posted by 10intheCrunch

The problem with BASIC is that...well it really isn't a *real* language. The technology behind it is archaic, and stripped down besides. C is much more powerful, I believe easier to use, and certainly more applicable to real technology development than BASIC. I think its great that we can use C now. Now I just have to get out of MPLab...wonder if theres an equivalent in C for Java's Eclipse...

Eclipse supports C/C++.

But IDEs for losers. Real programmers use Vi

[deltacoder1020]

Originally Posted by jhnphm

But IDEs for losers. Real programmers use Vi

hear hear

[adventrx327]

learning java first, c was a much easier transition than pbasic

[K0r34nB0y]

pbasic is old and ugly. C may be old but its obviously good enough to spawn 5 (probably more, but all i can think of at the moment) new languages

[Astronouth7303]

C+, C++, C#, plus all the varients and standards of C (PIC C, ANSII C, NQC, etc.).

[CrashZero]

C is easier and better to use because of the fact that more people already know it or something very close to it making it easier for newcomers to learn it from someone who already has knowledge. I agree that the default code may have some serious problems but I simply did not have time to re-write it all. My team did not have the bot built until the day of shiping and then wanted something that would work. IN LESS THEN A DAY!!! so I gave them the default to see if the moters work. They were not happy that they couldn't test anything else so now I have a modified code but the base is still the default.