topic Re: Request: Code based examples of bad LV code in BreakPoint

Request: Code based examples of bad LV code

Yamaeda — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:33:36 GMT

So, being reminded of the fun and educational threads of Rube Goldberg code and Local abuse i started thinking: How do we in a good way explain how bad this is to new people/text based programmers?

Can we some up with some good text based examples that shows or explains similar bad designs in other languages? I know it's hard, since in many cases you can't write that bad code and get it to work/compile. E.g. since Locals are good in text based programming, maybe the equivalent is to use Globals and create a new one (that copies another one) for each time you want to use it?

LV is sometimes too forgiving.

Re: Request: Code based examples of bad LV code

JÞB — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 13:15:05 GMT

My favorite find

While(1);

***no break ***

Return 0;

Much;

unreachable;

cleanup;

Yes, an infinite loop with post loop actions written in C++ I guess they teach PhD's (physics) that unity has a potential to fail.:0

Re: Request: Code based examples of bad LV code

Jacobson — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:38:16 GMT

The book "Code Complete" shows good and bad ways to do things and calls the bad examples "Coding Horrors". Not sure how many are relevant to LabVIEW though.