[Arhowk]

Originally Posted by Ether

True, but somewhat off-topic.

The narrow point being made was that the implicit implication of the given example (to wit, that similar functionality is not available in any form when using LabVIEW) is not persuasive.

To a certain degree. I do concur with your sediments that it is not only manageable but efficient to store a deal of information in a config file but the question becomes this- how much data is in the config file? Let's say that instead of asking for the ramp rate to be changed, you are asked to change what the controls are, a sequence in auton, exponential factor on the controls, etc. and if you end up making your entire robot via config file you end up just becoming an interpreted language, a la Python.

My actual opinion on the topic is to go with whatever a mentor or the student knows, but I just do not believe that maintaining the same speed that you have in Python with Labview is unrealistic.