[rzoeller]

Although my answer is biased (We use LV), I would say use whatever the majority of your programming team is familiar with. If it is just him, have someone younger shadow him - so that when he is gone your programming team isn't. One of the worst things that could happen IMO is that he leaves the team and not a single person can utilize and read the past code - especially if you want to modify something for off-season or use the code as a base later on. Labview allows us to focus on programming concepts and getting the ideas down - we aren't forced to deal with debugging syntax errors (and as someone who programs in C++ regularly, I can tell you that you will spend a lot of time doing just that.)