what are the disadvantages of labview?

[RavensFan]

While I'm always up for a good discussion, just be aware of the amount of time being spent to defend against trolls.  This thread was revived by a new user to the forums  (MarkGrindelll)  who posted only 2 messages, both extremely negative, and hasn't bothered to log in since to contribute any more to either of those threads whether positive or negative.

Recognize those people for who they are, and don't justify them by wasting time arguing with them.  Eventually they'll go away.

[altenbach]

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@RavensFan wrote:

Recognize those people for who they are, and don't justify them by wasting time arguing with them.  Eventually they'll go away.

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Nothing wrong with a little musing. In later instances, we can just refer to this thread, or the user discovers it and abstain from posting.

I think this case is a bit different. Apparently he got asked by his employer to work on an existing LabVIEW project. He sounded like a very experienced text programmer with little to no LabVIEW experience. I would blame the management here. Otoh, the saying about "old dog, new trick" is not always true and he sounded like a smart guy. Maybe by now he critically read our advices and already dove headfirst into the diagram in question. 😄

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@MarkGrindell wrote:

You cannot have a small, simple local variable unless it's on the application screen. 

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In fact, every wire is like a traditional local variable. You can't always wire them between structures, but a local variable in c\c++ can't either since it would be out of scope.

[Yamaeda]

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wiebe@CARYA wrote:

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@MarkGrindell wrote:

You cannot have a small, simple local variable unless it's on the application screen. 

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In fact, every wire is like a traditional local variable. You can't always wire them between structures, but a local variable in c\c++ can't either since it would be out of scope.

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Yup, the wire _is_ the variable (as in abstraction and access to data). One of the disadvantages of LV is the name choices of some things, such as Local Variable. It tricks text programmers to over use them as it's good programming practice in text to use them ... If they were named something like Control data copy people would be more hesitant to use them, me thinks. 🙂

/Y

[wiebe@CARYA]

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@Yamaeda wrote:

If they were named something like Control data copy people would be more hesitant to use them, me thinks. 🙂

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That's why Shared Variables should be called "Super Globals". (Super as in "use them as globals and your problems will be super big".)

[Ben]

t problem with LabVIEW may be its strongest point.

Being cross-platform and multilingual...

Bug fixes take forever to be deployed.

by the time they are corrected and tested and integrated and performance tested and blessed by the White Tower.

Ben