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1) What is your team planning to use?
I'll let the new programmers pick that. We are starting fresh next year, Our programming "staff" graduates this year.
For my money? I think LabView is amazing


2) What do you think will become the new standard?

I hope it is LabView, but C and C++ has a installed base

3) What will most rookie teams pick next year?

Great question, not sure. Someone stated it will be whoever has the best "How to..."
I tend to agree

4) Do you think FIRST will give us the standard LabVIEW, or will we have a customized interface for the CompactRIO?

I hope it is a full on dev pakage with specialized libraries. That way I will have all of the tools I am used to

5) We have some NXTs. Would programming them using LabVIEW be a good way to get some experience before next year's kickoff?

Yes and No.
Yes because you will learn the drag and drop method.
No because a Full Dev Package of LabView is SO much cooler, with more capability

6) Will there be any limitations to using LabVIEW? Will there be any features that are easily accessibly throught LabVIEW but require complex C? What are the main advantages/disadvantages?

Some one once told me that "LabView allows scientists to act like programmers. It makes the easy things hard but it makes the hard things easy"

I have programmed in LabView and in C (and Pascal and Fortran and...ok enough) and I prefer LabView. I don't even see the difference anymore between C and LV. But I can get up and running fast with LV

I am excited about this. I have always wondered if LabView is a good way to train a programmer.