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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
The main potential benefit I can see is that some people are good with "programming" but not with "coding". Giving them the ability to express code as a graphical flowchart overcomes the conceptual hurdle of writing programs as textual instructions.
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That's the benefit of pretty much all graphical programming languages, LabVIEW being one of them (and to a lesser extent MatLab and related languages that hide the inner details of how the data is stored). In my experience I have found that people who are comfortable with text based languages will not like programming in a graphical language at first, mainly because graphical programming languages require a different mindset and algorithm base. Even though I am very fluent in LabVIEW now I still prefer to do some things in a textual language because I haven't convinced myself yet that doing it in LabVIEW (or any graphical language) could be as efficient, even though I've had people tell me it is (but they were LabVIEW developers, who can trust them?
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-Danny