Who to Choosing Between programming language?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Rosiebotboss

What language does your programming mentor have the most experience with? That's the language you should use.

I don't think it's that simple.

I had no real experience with LabVIEW when it became an option. I chose to focus on it partly because of that. I didn't keep falling into the trap of wanting to do things myself because I could do it faster. Now that I do have plenty of LabVIEW experience, it's still a good language to use for our team, because I find it easier to explain a programming concept using dataflow and diagrams instead of procedures and text-based syntax.


If we had a large number of active programming students and wanted to do some sort of distributed programming effort, I'd pick C++ without hesitation. So far as I can tell, LabVIEW doesn't yet have the kind of support for fine-grained version control that is the norm for text-based languages.