LEGO Mindstorms Will Survive

thufir writes "LEGO has released a press release, where they dismiss the rumour that MINDSTORMS is being taken out of production. For some reason the changes in product policy lead to the misunderstanding that they would totally drop the product. 'Hearsay has it that a product range like LEGO MINDSTORMS is no longer in focus. This is not true. On the contrary, MINDSTORMS, CLIKITS and BIONICLE are all good examples of products the company wants to stake on.'" See our previous stories, Lego to Stop Producing Mindstorms and Lego Goes Back to the Basics.

Comments

Re:News for nerds, indeed

[aml666]

This would be THE primary reason for our existance. If all men were palm loving loners... the human race would end.

Re:Various languages for Mindstorm programming

[nemesisj]

My goodness. I've always wondered if there was anyone out there who ever thought Squeak was at all useful, and now I've come across one posting on Slashdot.

I'll be damned.

No disrespect, and I'm sure you have your reasons for liking it, but I've never ever had a worse experience than programming with Smalltalk in the Squeak environment. I had to use it for a school project, and I found 5 or 6 critical, repeatable bugs in the interpreter/environment. What a nightmare.

If you're able to use this environment to accomplish ANYTHING, my hat is off to you.