Thanks Jacob.

Yes LabVIEW does lend itself to quite a structured programming and some of the timed loops it offers REALLY give you deterministic timing even with a mammoth OS like WIN_XP. Thousands of manhours must have gone into developing such a coding interface. In my view if you really ask me, the following were a few discomforts :

1. Creating and using variables particularly global ones. They want everything to be associated to a front panel control. Though it makes sense in that environment, nothing like " dim Temp1 as Single " in VB or " unsigned int T0_Count = 0 " in C !! So simple and fast.

2. For most part it gives me a feel of using AutoCAD rummaging through all that graphics.

3. Identifying data types with wire colours. At the end of the day you feel like having wired a panel rather than coded a software ;-)


4. Code size. Its only in MegaBytes and nothing less.

%. Error messages. Some of them are so cryptic that you start scratching which is responsible : your code / LabVIEW / OS ?

Graphics, wires , colours fine. But still nothing to match the small rectangular piece of silicon with 40 odd legs.

Cheers

Raghu