It takes minutes to learn but a lifetime to master.
NI sells labview as a easy to learn programing tool that makes anyone a programmer. I think that many "selling points" is taken when the show the code for the boss. Thera are a lot of strings and boxes and all is realy colorful, anyone have read the comic strip Dillbert?.
In the end it is as hard as doing any programming, let it be in java C or VB. In the end its all about structure and understanding how to solve a problem with a computer.
For quick and dirty lab setups its great. You can learn that quicker than if you wuld do it in C and there are a lot of useful controlls as graphs and charts.
I have built several big/huge test systems in LV and I like it for some tasks but you can strugle for days trying to do minutes of C code.
I would say try it, if nothng else its a great experience.
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