Ask HN Computer Scientists: could my app make the world a better place?

Re:Ask HN Computer Scientists: could my app make the world a... by jules on Friday October 09, 2009 @06:09PM (#872572)

As someone who is forced to do LabView programming to set up experiments in a class, I disagree. LabView is the most unproductive way to code ever. Doing an `if(x<y)` takes like 100 clicks. The reason LabView is acceptable is that it has a lot of libraries for interfacing with hardware, and libraries for displaying measurements (but if I right click on an array view then "copy data" it copies the number as an image (!) instead of the underlying array, WTF?).

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Re:Ask HN Computer Scientists: could my app make the world a... by physcab on Saturday October 10, 2009 @08:41AM (#873288)

I couldn't agree more. As a programmer, Labview is very frustrating. What takes me an hour to "setup" I could probably code in less than 15 minutes. And its damn slow. And its errors are impossible to troubleshoot.

The only reason why I would attempt to do something in Labview in the first place is because all the hardware manufacturers ship with LabView modules.

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