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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle
Really? There is an IEEE conference on just that topic, though they prefer visual languages. I guess they aren't working on real CS problems like turning a wheel.
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Originally Posted by magnets
Tell that to the kid who makes almost twice as much as I do (an engineer with 20+ years of experience) straight out of college who was only hired because he was an excellent labview programmer. Labview is way more than powerful enough for your swerve drive, and Id argue that it's debugging tools and more sophisticated built in control signal processing and analysis libraries would make it more practical and less work than c++.
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I didn't say that visual languages were useless. I also didn't say that they weren't a serious area of study. I said that they weren't used to do real computer science. I guess should clarify. Would you use a visual language to do cutting-edge work in any of the following areas:
-Data structures
-Formal verification
-Information theory
-Artificial intelligence
-Computer graphics
-Cryptography
-Networking
-Distributed systems
-Databases
I think the answer is no. I'm not saying that it's impossible. I'm saying that it's not done, or at least it's very unusual.