[Chadfrom308]

No programming language is better. That being said, I would choose Labview. Last year, we made the decision to program in C++. It ended up not working out for us in the end because we had one programmer who knew it and fooled around the whole time *cough* Jason *coughcough* and one who did know it, but not as well as the other guy. During competitions, it was harder to change around all the code and it became harder to diagnose problems (due to the lack of experience).

We are doing this year in Labview because it is simple. I took home the robot for a week and had the thing moving and mostly working (except for anything that required PIDs and shooting). It seemed to be very easy and if all else fails, we can write the code in a few days for the robot. We want to do more advanced stuff (like hooking up arduinos using i2c) and doing better, offboard vision processing. We hope to get the Labview Finite State Machine from NI, but they haven't responded yet :/