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Re: Very New and Very Clueless!

Somewhere in this thread, there seemed to be a question as to what LV was used for and some confusion as to whether it is a programming language.

The moderately short answer is, it is an engineering tool and a domain specific language. The domain is science and engineering. LV is used by most large research labs, college research labs, manufacturing, and manufacturing test. The code written in LV tends to interact with hardware and either monitors, tests, or controls the hardware.

The obvious difference with LV is that it is graphical. The important difference is that it executes your code based on data flow. LV has no pointers, whenever possible refers to data by value, and makes parallel code execution very very easy. These aspects tend to make it good for robotics and machine control when in the right hands.

I'll be happy to answer other questions, but it sounds like you should get busy learning some programming language and making a robot move.

Greg McKaskle