Readability

I have been looking through the existing Robot code.

At some point I think we should do a bunch of renames.

I don't know what this variable does: oPrivGearNb

I think its name should be obvious. I think the "o" is unnecessary, and I think the rest doesn't tell me what it is. If the Nb means number, that is also not really necessary. We don't have to make variable names long, just make the names as predictable and natural as possible would be great.

Let's use the C# Boundary to make nice type and variable names. The functions seem logical and that is the harder part of designing a boundary API. But making the code so natural that anyone reading it can instantly figure out what is going on, approachability, is important.

I think we should not do this:

  property RaceTimeBeforeNext: Double
     read oRaceTimeBeforeNext;

That just wastes space and pollutes the namespace. Lets just expose most things as a data member and also make it a property one day without changing the other code. It gets us nothing. Some languages allow you to write compact code. I think with an afternoon of search and replace across files we could make the Torcs robot a ton better for a random programmer on the street.

I presume the data for RaceTimeBeforeNext is needed, but it sure sounds like a weird name.

Just imagine if all functions had totally random names. How much would that slow progress?