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This article doesn't even mention LabVIEW, probably the most successful and most used VPL ever.

• mjcohen 11y ago
  I agree. I enjoyed using it when I worked at Northrop (formally TRW).
• cloderic 11y ago
  In fact it did, but some last minute must have remove it from the lists. We're gonna edit that :) We're not familiar with it though, it is used to simulate integrated circuit, right ?
  • veli_joza 11y ago
    Not quite. Like Simulink, it's a general computing platform. It is often used to process real-time measurements (for custom laboratory instrumentation), to construct industrial automation system; but you can also build rich GUI applications and business logic with it. It's easy to program in, but a mess to debug and reason with (same can be said for other visual languages). Great for code-and-forget prototypes and for smaller throwaway projects, as a replacement for scripting languages.
  • Scarblac 11y ago
    It interfaces extremely easily with _lots_ of obscure measurement devices / cameras / sensors / step motors and other hardware, and makes it trivial to make graphical user interfaces for them. It compiles to machine code and has an easy model for concurrency. In a previous job I made computer vision-powered robotics for food and agriculture, and it was almost entirely LabVIEW with some things implemented in C for speed. Even with years of experience I found it a pain to work in though, compared to text based languages.
  • cloderic 11y ago
    The article has been edited, thanks for the details guys!