[Mike Copioli]

Our team uses Windriver primarily because our team has many students who are programmers. Programmers use programming languages. Labview is written in a programming language. I suspect that it was written in c/c++. If an individual desires to become a developer of products that use micro controllers they must know a programming language. If an individual desires to write desktop software they must learn a programming language. Having said that Labview is a great tool for people who are not programmers or have little knowledge of programming but need to create software that runs on a specific platform and need to do it fast. Gregs example highlights this. I personally enjoy the flexability that programming languages provide. They are universal allowing developers to write software for a variety of processor platforms. Although that the result may be the same, in some cases, whether you are using Labview or c/c++, to argue that one is better than the other is pointless because they are not the same thing.