is LABVIEW better then LABWIN/CVI ?

[tzviel]

I am going to take a NI course just need to decide if it is going to be LABVIEW or LABWIN/CVI.

I have been working a bit with LABVIEW and it seems like you can do more things with it then with LABWIN/CVI?

Am I right or not?

Please let me know what do you think? which one is better for test engineering.

thanks

[chilly_charly]

That's not the kind of question to be posted here 😄
You may have noticed that this is a LabVIEW forum. Do you really expect that people here could tell you that LabVIEW can't compete with other programming languages (even developped by NI...) ? 😉

OK I'll do it :
Nooo ! Never use LabVIEW ! It's the worst tool I'have ever used! Look : I'm bald, my teeth are falling, my wife just left me (hum... may be I should avoid that one, she is complaining...), my dog bite me, and I'm chased by a giant female rabbit that want to fight on the beaches...

May be you should try elsewhere ?

[tzviel]

you made me laugh 🙂

I thought here people would tell me the benefits of labview over CVI.

I am tending towards LABVIEW.

thanks for you answer...

[chilly_charly]

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tzviel wrote: you made me laugh

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That was the purpose : LabVIEW is fun, and the LVWers community is strong and reactive. People here love LV. Have a look at the BreakPoint...

CC

[tst]

You can ignore Charly, he's french...

Asking a question like that is like asking whether a BMW X5 is better than a Ferrari 355.
The BMW is more comfortable and can go off-road and the Ferrari is faster on the track, so which is better?

LV is probably much more comfortable to use than any C compiler, is much easier to learn than C and would definitely be faster to develop in for certain apps, but it doesn't have the diversity of C and if you already know some text based languages you will have to make some adjustments in your thinking.
Like CC said, you will probably get good opinions about LV from *most* people here, so I guess the real question is what exactly do you plan to do with your knowledge.
And yes, the LV community is fun...

[tzviel]

I know C and MATLAB but my main purpose is to develop in a short time a way to run tests on equipment (ready baords manufactured by other companies),so I thought LABVIEW was the way.

I am having some troubles with my LABVIEW so I will open a new topic and I will be happy to hear from you and from CC again.

Tzviel

[RayFarmer]

I'll go with the C.. as you already know it and it sounds like your task is not that complicated.

Regards
Ray ( I do prefer LabView than CVI) Farmer 🙂

Message Edited by Ray Farmer on 05-04-2005 05:01 PM