Is switching from LabVIEW a bad idea?

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

With the way things move in the computer world.... I can just about guarantee the programming tool you learn in high school will not be the one you use through out your career. In terms of learning the logic of programming any of the programming languages work. The rest is just syntax & pointers.

In the industrial world. You will have to learn whatever programming tool the machines in your plant are using. When you change jobs as most of you will, you likely will be learning another tool.

C has been around since the 70s and C++ came out in the early 80s. Java was released in 1995. Perl and python came around the late 80s with Ruby following sometime in the mid-90s.

Many places still use these languages. Of course, there have been significant updates to them over the years, but they're all still around.

I guess this basically sums up my thoughts on this thread:

As a computer science student, never once have I wished that I could go back in time and learn LabVIEW. I have, however, been thankful many times for having a background in C/C++ and Java before entering college.