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I think what some people are going to label LabVIEW as is the rookie standard... which really isn't true at all. LV is powerful; extremely powerful. The 'flowgraph' portion of LV is very high level, yet based on modifiable low-level code. Anyone who makes their robot in C will quickly realize how un-needed it is at the level the FRC competition is going to. you only have 6 weeks to program, and lets say the challenge is to autonomously pick out 15 red colored balls from a pile of 150 multicolored balls. Anyone using C programming from scratch will be in the pit because no easy-to-use library really exists for the task at hand. in LV, however, the vision and manipulation libraries are extensive, and the ability to add new libraries further adds to the power.

true, labview's libraries probably could be ported to work with a standard C compiler, and probably already have.
but isn't it easier to maintain the code when you can see it all at once, while it is natively written in a followable flowchart form?