Who to Choosing Between programming language?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I'm not a programmer, but I do consider myself very computer literate and I've done limited programming in LabView, Java, PBASIC, and Matlab. I must say, of them all, LabView was the most frustrating for me to use.

LabVIEW is the only one in your list that isn't a "traditional" procedural language. It makes sense that you'd find it the hardest to work with based on limited exposure.

I too had a frustrating introduction to LabVIEW. My instructor was a wizard at dataflow programming, and showed me things so quickly that I never had a chance to understand the underlying nature of what was going on. Later, after I had gone through a well-done series of tutorials -- and after I had let go of much of what I thought a programming language "needed" to be -- everything was much easier to understand.