Java vs Labview

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Originally Posted by Patrick Chiang

2 ANDs, an OR, a multiply, an add, a comparison. Now, if we include the inverting blocks, which will be another 2, that's a lot of blocks to be dragging around.

Point is, even if you do it in 3 (I can't think of a way now, but I'm sure someone better at LV than me can do it), that's still quite a bit slower than typing it out. Now, if you wanted to change the sequence or change the order of blocks... that's even more labor in LV.

A way that LV could (and IMO should) speed up this process would be to allow people to put together parts of the program while typing code. That way you wouldn't have to sacrifice any of the features and still be able to get things done faster. Maybe there is some way of doing this and I'm just completely ignorant.

Also, I don't know what they have against if-statements. Every C based language has if-statements. Plenty of visual languages out there have if statements. (Scratch, which is where I started programming in middle school, is a great example) How hard could it be to add in another block for if statement. They already have case structures. Someone out there's probably made a SubVI for if statements. If LV followed more traditional terminology and added in some basic stuff, they could totally convince a lot more people to switch without confusing their existing user base. Just a minor rant from a text programmer's perspective.

I think a case structure can function as an if-statement; just wire a boolean value to the condition terminal. Am I misunderstanding?