Advantages of each programming language

[basicxman]

Originally Posted by wireties

I would advise a student looking to be a computer scientist that Java is a viable choice.

Care to elaborate? What do you define as a computer scientist?

Originally Posted by wireties

LabView and Python are awesome environments but not (works everywhere for everything) primary tools, they are specialized 4GL tools.

Is this a problem? FRC is a very specialized application.

Originally Posted by wireties

Also, (in FRC) using a language your mentor knows is a primary consideration.

Seconding this.