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Originally Posted by F22Rapture View Post
As pointed out, this has been discussed to death. That said, if nobody on your team has any programming experience whatsoever I'd say LabView, but if you have members or mentors who are familiar with text-based languages use Java. I would not recommend C++ for a rookie team because of the learning curve and relative lack of FRC-specific documentation compared to the other two languages.
Interesting that you say Java has better documentation - I've always felt C++ was better documented. I guess the grass is greener on the other side.
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