The LIST 2

[Ben]

Hi Christian,

I hope the delay was worth the wait.

Ben

[chilly_charly]

Ben, you are a real wizard...

[Ben]

CC,

That cold of yours has affected your eye sight. Christian is the Wiazrd, I am the teddy bear.

Ben

[altenbach]

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@Ben wrote:

I hope the delay was worth the wait.

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Wow, I cannot imagine how many strings you had to pull for this. It was the most fantastic surprise, completely unexpected, but worth so much to me! Really! 🙂

How did you ever get the most respected LabVIEW Enthusiasticus Emeritus Extraordinarius to come out of retirement???

(Sorry, things are a bit hectic today and I had to take care of some emergency issues with one of our instrument. I'll write a better response later in the other thread...)

Message Edited by altenbach on 07-13-2005 03:23 PM

[chilly_charly]

List issue n°28

Halleluia !!!

Altenbach is now sanctified and has joined Ben and Dennis in the LV heavens...

The runners of the week are once again tst, altenbach, Dennis Knutson and CC. But mikeporter is accelerating and will probably be among the trio leader next week.

Welcome to our new members : yulzhu, Novatron, Watermann, Aquaphire, happybird, Meister, AL, Angelantoni, Minamimax, Mark H, esa_paranoid

Novatron, Aquaphire and yulzhu are doing an impressive startup with an average reply rate of more than 3 replies/day. They were missed in the last List issues due to the way the List is updated (scan of a pre-list of potential Enthusiasts, updated every 2 months).

The List holds now 501 Enthusiasts.

[falkpl]

500 members of the 50+ makes us a real community.  I find posting one of the best ways to learn labview, both from reading and learning from my own experience posting answers.  It is nice to see the breadth of applications for Labview.  I was wondering if anyone has an estimate of the size labview programming community.  I sometimes get some skepticism about using labview to solve client engineering problems and would like to back it up with numbers and more case studies.  How many programmers (full-time/part-time) are there in the labview community, is there any statistics on this?  I know from my own experience that labview has proven to solve many engineering problem.  I would like to be able to convince others of the strengths of Labview and modular hardware to address both prototype development and complete enterprise engineering solutions.

-Paul

[chilly_charly]

Some numbers to crunch ?
50 thousand registrations on the NI forum. Over 1000 registered users with more than 20 contributions. 132000 messages posted.

May be Molly could give us an estimate of the number of LVUsers ? Running for a mug, my guess is 350000 (world basis).

[falkpl]

Thanks for the numbers, It is nice to see how Labveiw has grown.  I first heard of labview in 96 but could not find any active users to show me ho to use it (or even explain to me its benefits) in 97 I started casual programming with labview and have used it extensively since 98, at least now when I mention using LV in a project many engineers and scientists which I interact with know of the product.  I have also been so impressed with the dynamic nature of the language/API and seen some great improvements since LV 4.0 days (the first version I used)

[Molly K]

To be honest, I don't know how many LabVIEW users are out there.  I guess all the signs of growth that you have mentioned are as close as we can get.  It's great to hear stories about students learning it in schools and first hand accounts like the one falkpl mentioned where more engineers and scientists today are familiar with it.

I wish I could give a mug for a contest on this one, but I don't know the answer 🙂

[RobCole]

Well, I don't get huge amounts of time to answer questions anymore, but I'm trying to work on that some.

It's interesting to see my name on THE LIST twice. I was never able to repatriate my old account from when I worked at another company, so there sits RobCole and Robert Cole (my current account) on the list.

Things have come a long way here. I remember when my 300+ answers put me in the top 20. I watched some of the current top answerers catch up and then pass me.

I just may have to get busy again.

     Rob