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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
More recently, products have been developed to "cut out the middle man" (i.e. the software engineer) and automatically generate the C code from the block diagrams.
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The aerospace industry incorporated "pictures-to-code", starting back in the 1980's. It never truly eliminated the middle-man, since we aero's needed software engineers to develop and maintain the process and keep porting it to new hardware platforms!
Easy-C for FTC and FRC is a pretty decent implementation of the concept. While we use Easy-C for all our FTC teams' programming, we teach C and write customized code at the FRC level.
After trying out LabView 2 years ago, in the pilot project, and after reading through this thread, I have to align myself with those who'd accept LabView as an option for coding the FRC, but -
please - not the only option.
Thanks,
Eric