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Re: What do you use to program your robot?

1756 used Labview for the first time this year. We had a quick learning experience, which was helped greatly by a mentor who uses Labview at work. Otherwise, our lead programming mentor would have likely gone back to C++. I like Labview because it is easy to understand and change, but it takes a long, long, long time to build and deploy. This is frustrating when the mechanical guys are waiting to play with the robot for the first, or thirty-sixth time of the day.
I would recommend Labview, but if a team is more familiar with C++ or Java, why not play to your strengths.