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Re: Preferred Programming Language

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Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42 View Post
LabVIEW...
Honestly, the visual does get kind of messy. I, personally would love to see us use Java in the future for the "easier to keep neat" part.
How would you keep a text-based language neat? Unless you're talking about the formatting of indivicual lines, you can probably do the same sort of thing in a graphical language.

If your LabVIEW code is getting too messy for your tastes, you're likely trying to do more in one place than you ought to. Keep unrelated things separate, and use subVIs to encapsulate specific functionality. If you're good about using the graphical nature of the language, you can usually manage not to have a VI spill past the edges of the screen.