Never said it a great experience, just that they used visual programing to express logic flow. And I agree, the "language" forces you to repeat yourself. I bel

Never said it a great experience, just that they used visual programing to express logic flow. And I agree, the "language" forces you to repeat yourself. I believe that over the years there's been attempts at alternatives but none of them caught on. The only new things you see if faster hardware (PLC), new buses (took forever for ethernet to catch on) and new classes of IO / devices to control. The controls / industrial automation industry has different set of constraints & values. It's a very conservative industry. Double so if what you're programming is safety and error proofing. So the industry values tools that consistent, maintainable (by current / future staff). There's many cases where you might be supporting an installation with a mixture of both new and 20 year old hardware. It is just a different world.