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Originally Posted by StevenB

To take a quick example: In my university's electronics lab, we've got a set of standard lab equipment (Agilent multimeter, power supply, and waveform generator, Tektronix scope) with PCs running LabVIEW. Because I've been using LabVIEW since my FLL days eleven years ago, it was a simple matter to connect the equipment to the PC and create some cool VIs for my lab work. I can characterize motors, create Bode plots, test transistors, and a thousand other things - just by writing a simple VI. None of my classmates know how to do this; in fact, none of my professors know how to do this.

How many college students can say they've been using LabVIEW for eleven years?

That's very cool!