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I have been in the programming business for some time and use all three languages. I always find this discussion very interesting. The battle of the languages. Who is faster, who is easier, who is used more, bla bla bla bla.

All three Languages eventually do the same thing in the end and that is they are compiled down to a much lower level set of instructions for the processor.

That being said, I really don’t think any of the three is better than the other as far as the application of a First robot, as they all share the same LabView libraries which I believe are written in C. If this was an interstellar probe or a very large distributed application that might be a different story.

For now would suggest the following:

LabView for a rookie team with no programming experience or someone majoring in engineering
Java for a team with someone who has experience with it or someone who is majoring in computer science/computer modeling
C++ for a team with someone who has experience with it or someone who is majoring in information technology/programming