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Re: Java vs Labview

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Originally Posted by Patrick Chiang View Post
It's extremely confusing for people who knew Java/C++ or most other programming language and switch to LV and find that something that is functionally the exact same exists but under a completely different name.
The flip side is that for people who start out learning LabVIEW, it's confusing to find that the equivalent of a Case block is done in a procedural language like C using several completely different structures, each with utterly different syntax.

Why is the name such a big deal, anyway? It's a different language, and things do not map directly from one to the other. If you insist on calling things by the name of something similar in another language, I think you make it even more confusing. Someone looking for something that acts like a C "switch" certainly isn't going to expect to find it named "if".