My experience also. I've been working in various test and manufacturing automation roles at HP and I've seen some complex stuff done in LabVIEW that's very hard

My experience also. I've been working in various test and manufacturing automation roles at HP and I've seen some complex stuff done in LabVIEW that's very hard to read and practically impossible to hand off to a different engineer. The typical LabVIEW user here is an experienced EE with limited SW engineering skills so I can see how a different "paradigm" might be appealing. As we all know, though, maintenance cost and sometimes performance also counts. Also, I'm not sure why representing a program as data structures flowing between reusable components is described as something different or new. I think the major contribution of FBP, if such a thing really exists, is the GUI used to create these programs. Surely the fundamental building blocks have been programmed in a more traditional way.