"Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"

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22-04-2009, 21:51

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Re: "Java, Sun SPOT and the FIRST Robotics Competition"

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Originally Posted by virtuald

You're right, obviously linux and vxWorks have different design goals. Probably would be a bit better if you were running in the kernel like we do on the cRio or if it were a realtime patched kernel, but hard to say -- I've no experience with realtime Linux.

In any case, I value the flexibility quite a bit more than I value the realtimeness. Cmon, a robot controlled by a shell script... would be pretty amusing.

A)Programming a robot with a shell script is on the same level as programming it with a perl script, in my mind.

B) We were half hoping that someone, somewhere would port lolcode to vxWorks...

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