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Originally Posted by neutrino15
. . . but if you are working in an exclusively high level language (such as LabVIEW) it is hard to get down into the nitty gritty low level to debug and perform hacks.
To me, the difference between LabVIEW and C++ is like the difference between writing a paper and drawing a wordless comic strip. They both convey the same thing, but the paper can be written faster and allows for more subtle tweaking.
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LabVIEW has a number of tools to help with debugging, you can set breakpoints, probe wires to watch values at runtime, highlight the execution paths, etc so debugging should not be a concern.
As to which is faster, this probably depends on the problem being solved and the user, but the general notion would be the opposite of what you have suggested. Higher level languages tend to increase programmer productivity.
One of the best things you can do is to learn both.