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Mr. Poindexter, I'd like to sincerely thank you for creating CROBOTS, and for open sourcing it. I spent many hours as a child fondly learning from the examples
by npongratz 11y ago
Mr. Poindexter, I'd like to sincerely thank you for creating CROBOTS, and for open sourcing it. I spent many hours as a child fondly learning from the examples (I especially remember sniper.r as being educational in grade school) and hacking away at my own bots. I was already interested in C at the time, after studying BASIC, but CROBOTS helped me understand C and statistics in a practical way (the tangible results of many test samples resulting in robotic destruction or victory!), and served as motivation to continue down the software development path.
- tpoindex 11y agoYou're welcome! It is always gratifying for me when I hear stories similar to yours. I've even heard a few similar stories in person from colleagues in my professional career. Open sourcing CROBOTS was something I should have done a long time ago. I always thought I'd get back to it, but life, kids, job, & other projects seemed to always come first. Thanks to Neil Fraser for finally prompting me to put it up on Github under an open source license. Neil also converted the manual to HTML.