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Re: Pros and cons of using Labview?

While I am a big advocate of LabView, especially for teaching to beginning programmers I do have a couple of issues with it.

1. It will eat your computer's resources alive. Everywhere you look you see LV's big fat footprint. Plan on dedicating a machine just for LabView programming.

2. It is proprietary and it is not cheap. Once your license expires you'll have to pony up some serious money to continue to use it. It will never replace Java or C++ in popularity because of this one issue.

These two issues are the biggest cons in my book.
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