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Re: PROGRAMMERS: WIND RIVER C++ vs LABVIEW vs JAVA

I've known C++ a lot longer than I have Labview, but when they introduced it to FRC I decided to try it and learn a new language. Which was great because it's just a new way of doing things. As for Labview not being a "real" language used in the "real" world, last summer I was doing research and while I was programming the device I was working on with a combination of Verilog(a hardware descriptor language) and C++ I had some friends in chip testing who were doing some "serious" programming using Labview. It's a language that is used widely by scientists and engineers. Although personally I prefer to code in C++
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