[JesseK]

Isn't it also possible to integrate Matlab algorithms into LabView? Aren't they pretty much one in the same? I seem to remember our LabView expert in college take our optical system that we had in Matlab and adapt it to LabView without much pain.

While some programmers have never used Matlab, I'm sure several Electrical/Systems Engineers have. The inability to use vector-based math without crazy lookup tables drove me mad over the summer when attempting to make a feasible, fast and accurate field-oriented mecanum drive algorithm for the RC that matched my pretty Matlab surface graphs.