...So What's The Dif?

• LabVIEW supports most fundamental aspects of any programming language (common datatypes, loops, conditional structures, strings, etc.)
• Major advantages over text-based counterparts:
  • Easy interface development
  • "Intuitive" code
  • Inherent parallelism
• Major disadvantages compared to text-based counterparts:
  • True object-oriented development not trivial
  • Recursion not trivial
  • Small speed degredation
  • $ Proprietary $