[EthanMiller]

My opinion is all this contains.

I used Java to program the robot this year. Last year, I used LabVIEW. And to be honest, once each was on the robot, I didn't see any difference in performance. We also didn't get any complaints from the drivers.

I'm probably going to try C++ next year.

I'm not an experienced programmer. I started programming on the TI graphing calculators, with the built-in BASIC-like language. Moving to LabVIEW was something different, and JAVA the same. And I can say - again, my opinion - that for this application, I didn't see that one was particularly better than the other.

I'm probably still going to learn Java and C/C++ for programming for the computer. LabVIEW programs can run on a computer, but that doesn't mean it's inexpensive to do so.

Thus, does being proprietary and costly make a language better or worse? Or does it merely make it more exclusive? And, is exclusivity a bad thing?

And as for LabVIEW not being programming: My opinion is that anything that is compiled into native code and executed on a computer is a programming language. This may not be accurate - I'm in 10th grade and starting programming, so correct me if I'm wrong in that definition - but LabVIEW fits it, and so to me is real programming.