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Originally Posted by Spoam

The flexibility to use robot code written by a novice without worrying that a syntax error will cause a heap corruption

Originally Posted by wt200999

Sounds like a great reason to use LabVIEW!

Originally Posted by Arhowk

Eclipse can pick up on almost every single syntax error quite easily. I've dealt with issues such as users putting a space in front of their variable names in Labview causing them to fail for seemingly no reason. Labview has no advantage in this field.

Originally Posted by jdaming

This is completely untrue and shows your lack of understanding. I use LabVIEW often in my Automation Engineering job and it has many advantages to traditional languages you just have to understand what those are

Without making any judgement either way regarding the claim in Arhowk's post, the phrase "in this field" in context seemed to be narrowly referring to syntax checking only.