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Originally Posted by davidthefat
Here is what I don't get, once you learn C++ why would you want to move to LabView?  Makes 0% sense to me... Its like getting a Lambo then trading it for a Civic in my view... If you understand, why restrict yourself while you have almost full control with C++ then putting on training wheels? |
When I see posts like this it is always painfully obvious that the poster has not used LabView, and has certainly not actually tried creating the same program in LabView and C++ or Java and seen which one takes longer.
I learned C and C++ long before I started looking into LabView. I was pretty much forced into learning LabView (up until this point I thought that graphical programming was for people who couldn't handle learning real languages) when the "LabView Guy" in our lab graduated. I inherited his projects and started learning LV, after a couple of weeks I was capable of trouble shooting his software, by the end of the summer I was fairly proficient using LV. I can write code in a fraction the time it would take me in your choice of text based languages. I don't have to worry about a lot of things like parsing serial data because the tools are there for you. My favorite thing about LabView is that after the code is working with a few clicks I can create a pretty good looking GUI with graphs and charts that clearly show what is going on (try explaining to marketers and sales people that numbers in a terminal window are proof everything works.
In my current job I don't get to use LabView very often (4 bit micro controllers that cost <$.02 don't really run LabView code). I spend my day writing in C and Assembly (and all sorts of proprietary interpretations of C). I have all the control in the world over my micro controllers, however I would not equate the experience of going from LabView Back to C to going from a Civic back to a Sports Car. C (or C++) may be fast and efficient but it is not a Lamborghini, it is more like a stripped down race car, built for performance, it may perform better but it is uncomfortable to drive, labview on the other hand would be your Luxury performance car, it might not be as efficient as a sports car but it is much faster than 99% of drivers will ever need it to be, and all of the luxuries and conveniences greatly out weigh the marginal performance increases.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
For example, I know C pretty well. I then proceeded to learn Labview, Python, Lisp, Haskell, Java, and C#. Why? Because I want to have a nice big tool chest for when I run into a problem.
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I am still waiting for the day I find a problem that requires me to use Haskell, I had to learn it for a class and am yet to find a situation to apply that knowledge (ProLog falls into this category too).