Oh I definitely agree with you there! LabVIEW was amazingly easy to just grab and run with,and I didn't have any issues with the language design. I think it's s

Oh I definitely agree with you there! LabVIEW was amazingly easy to just grab and run with,and I didn't have any issues with the language design. I think it's something with a ton of potential (especially for writing multithreaded code), it just needs to compile large programs faster (maybe precompile functions you import from libraries?) and shrink the default spacing between elements. I wouldn't call LabVIEW open, though - isn't a retail copy close to $3000? (might be another reason it isn't as commonly used)