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

Great stuff, and Greg I really appreciate your input. Sure you're from NI, but I feel you've been objective.

As a mentor, I'm bummed about the lack of growth in our programming team. We have 2 or 3 people usually doing some code, but one uber-coder who likes to pursue some ultracool stuff that most others can't keep up with.

Last year, that ubercoder had some personal issues and wasn't available for some chunks of time, so one mentor and his son learned to do just about everything in LV in a couple of weeks.

For teams that don't have an ubercoder who loves data, bits and bytes, go LV. If you have an AP Comp Sci class at your school, Java might be the way to go since you have a class of programmers at your school. For the code-jocks who like to have access to pointers and the core of code, they won't let go of C++.

But the bigger question is around the "I" in FIRST: is your goal to code, or inspire coders? For that, LV might be the biggest winner, and we're going to be making a bigger move into.
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