I haven't heard of NXC! It looks like NXC is basically NQC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_C) for the current-g

I haven't heard of NXC! It looks like NXC is basically NQC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Quite_C) for the current-gen Mindstorms products? (I only got a chance to play with the new Mindstorms kit briefly in college to setup a small demo, they got about 25 educational kits as part of some grant. I just used the included software.) I got to do FIRST Lego League in grade school with the RCX 1.5 and later the RCX 2.0 AFAIK the rules prohibited us from using NQC at the time. I believe we were limited to RoboLab [a separate product sold by LabView] and the stock Mindstorms software. (*Which I should point out is _nothing_ like the current software. It was geared towards very young users, very "flashy", and quite buggy. -- It did, however, include lots of media and examples for the robots in the instruction manual.) That regulation was probably for the best, as my elementary self would've probably been frustrated by C-style syntax. I knew it existed only because our coach and assistant coach were both software engineers.