Labview. I hated graphical programming. I don’t even know why. Then I worked on this fairly complex real-time system with FPGAs and lasers and whatnot with seve

Labview. I hated graphical programming. I don’t even know why. Then I worked on this fairly complex real-time system with FPGAs and lasers and whatnot with several people. Works first time. How does it work? Obvious. Encapsulation is obvious from the diagram. Comments barely needed. Need to make a change deep in the code that breaks an interface? Everything you need to change turns red. If something doesn’t look good, it probably isn’t. design patterns are obvious. Was it slow to write? Yes. Definitely. Were there times I was frustrated because I wanted to write some hasty junk imperative code? Yes. Labview made me do it right. Could all this be done easier with lexical code? Probably, but I rarely see it. Can you make a disaster out of labview? Yes; even worse maybe. But... it makes bad code harder to write than good code, and quite obvious visually.