Women in Technology

Article:		What I Hate About Your Programming Language
Subject:		Graphical Programming
Date:		2003-05-13 15:57:50
From:		anonymous2
The article doesn't mention the ease/difficulty of programming in a Graphical language ex. LabVIEW. I used to hate it till I started using it. Now I do almost everything in LabVIEW. What I Hate about it? + It ain't free. + No recursion + No OOP + Expensive toolkit add-ons for special functionality (Signal processing, Real-time etc.) + No matrix data-type. Of course you can use arrays but I would like to see a Matrix primitive What I love about? + Takes me a day to do a project which I would normally take a week to do in C. + Elegant and self explanatory + Dataflow programming style. + Great debugging tools

Showing messages 1 through 3 of 3.

• Graphical Programming
  2003-05-13 18:45:27  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  In the interest of having some LabVIEW gripes, here's mine in addition to those above:
  
  - Complex things are harder to code in LabVIEW than in a textual language.
  - Very slow at matrix things when you do try to kludge it in. I agree, it desperately needs a matrix primitive (other than multi-dimensional arrays).

• Graphical Programming
  2003-05-14 04:24:03  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  Actually there are toolkits available for OOP in LabVIEW. I would like to recommend you to look at www.endevo.se for a product called GOOP (Graphical Object Oriented Programming). A new release that also supports inheritance is due later this year.

• Graphical Programming
  2003-05-14 18:25:58  setok [View]
  
  
  One additional thing worth considering with graphical programming is that it's the most natural thing in the world to make a multi-threaded application...