Rube Goldberg Code

[JÞB]

5.1 had the do while true default. and yes I strongly suspect that this is "Legacy" code.  (Note the lack of VISA)  

Which brings up an interesting side discussion from yesterday's Developer Days panel.  

"I'm going to update some code to LabVIEW 2013,  What should I look out for with my 2009 source?"

The consencus seamed to be "No worries except expect the optomizer to come around and improve performance... but everything..... Re-Review everything!"  get rid of error 42, use Events.  Use IPEs sparingly, are those VITs you are launching? try an ACBR?  if you upgrade your code "Upgrade it!"

Further conversation revealed the "2009 source code" was old enough to get a drivers license!  

[PaulG.]

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@JÞB wrote:

Further conversation revealed the "2009 source code" was old enough to get a drivers license!  

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My very first VIs are that old. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. And yes, I'll vouch that do while true is at least V 5.1.

[altenbach]

A simple task is to parse a 2D array of strings into date/time (first two colums) and data (third column or above) for display on an xy graph.

A recent such case came up here. array Indexing (5x), array size, initializie arrays (2x), shift registers (2x), insert into array (2x), etc. etc.

... or some simple stamp sized code. You pick! 🙂

[James_W]

It's those complex numbers again!

[Andrey_Dmitriev]

Most beautiful Block Diagram which I have ever seen:

Acquired from this thread.

[thoult]

Wow.

Looks like PCB tracking in places! 🙂

[PaulG.]

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@Andrey_Dmitriev wrote:

Most beautiful Block Diagram which I have ever seen:

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I tried watching it run with highlight execution on. I thought it was going to crash my system. 

[LordNobady]

I like it. it looks good. I only still have no idee what he is trying to do and what is problem is. ( exept to much time )

[altenbach]

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@Andrey_Dmitriev wrote:

Most beautiful Block Diagram which I have ever seen:

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Is this supposed to run on an FPGA?

So who can translate it into postage stamp sized code e.g. using boolean arrays instead?

[TroyK]

Translate it? It's art!  The OCD parts of my brain are mesmerized.

Forget wether or not it works, the block diagram is a thing of beauty.  I think I will print it out and frame it.

I suppose it would be more impressive if it worked, but it seems wrong to mess with art.

PS. Style guides such as no data flow from right to left don't apply to art.