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Re: What are you programming in?

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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
While I agree that C/C++ are great languages, I disagree with you on this point.

Just because the LV way of doing something might be different dosen't mean it's impossible or even very hard to do.

Having worked with both C and LabVIEW, there are many things which are much harder in LabVIEW if you try to program it like C (in a procedural or object-oriented way).

There are some things which are still harder in LabVIEW. However, there are some things in LabVIEW which are harder in C++. It's all a tradeoff. Both languages are fully capable of handling what we are throwing at them.
I have never even looked at LV. I know Java and C++ and the main reason I am programming the robot in C++ is b/c I know the WPI Libraries in C++ the best. And I will admit some things may be harder in C++, but we don't wanna make our job to easy now do we? haha.