Turtles are a 'do anything you want and get away with it' device. Once you get the simplistic LUA coding format and commands down, there's almost nothing you can't do with it. It's... just not my cuppa.The above post is one of those "on paper" complaints. There is a whole series of youtube videos where someone tries to do this and it basically is no better than normal methods. It was called the ComputerCraft Challenge.
But also, it's a cool story if you don't like writing a lot of code. But why is that people who want to write a ton of code for computercraft are being told that their recipe are OP when they're working just as hard as everyone else on a different kind of game? If that's the game they wanna play then it seems pretty reasonable.
I like how you seem to think that pounding out code no more complicated than stuff elementary school (or perhaps Jr High at the latest) kids deal with in class is somehow complicated, though. Tedious, perhaps, if you don't know how to write clean code and don't pastebin commonly used subroutines, but not hard. And, of course, no risk of creeper to the face.
Sure, to each their own. And Computercraft is an awesome way to introduce programming to kids. It's simple enough that they can grasp the concepts, and since it's in a game, it's fun. It's an absolutely brilliant mod, and I cannot congratulate the author enough for it.
It's just not my play style.