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Re: A free version of Labview

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On 2019-12-28 16:22, Rick C wrote:
> On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 3:08:12 PM UTC-5, Phil Hobbs
> wrote:
>> On 2019-12-28 14:36, Rick C wrote:
>>> On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 2:21:52 PM UTC-5, Phil Hobbs 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 2019-12-28 12:37, Rick C wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 12:12:16 PM UTC-5, Phil
>>>>> Hobbs wrote:
>>>>>> On 2019-12-28 12:07, Rick C wrote:
>>>>>>> On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 11:02:21 PM UTC-4,
>>>>>>> Martin Riddle wrote:
>>>>>>>> <https://www.mediamongrels.com/free-labview-for-everyone-labview-community-edition-coming-soon/>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>
>>>>>>>> 
Release date is...  November or early next year.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> But the LINX toolkit in interesting for the Raspberry
>>>>>>>> PI
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> That's interesting.  I had missed this until now.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Blech.  Now there'll be no escaping it. :(
>>>>> 
>>>>> What are you talking about???
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is a discussion group.  You don't think people should 
>>>>> discuss things?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Where on earth did you get that idea?  I just despise LabView,
>>>> and now it'll be everywhere.
>>>> 
>>>> "Ah, LabView: spaghetti code that even _looks_ like
>>>> spaghetti."
>>> 
>>> Lol, I hardly thing this is the beginning of the total
>>> desctruction of engineering as we know it.  What do you dislike
>>> about it?
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> See the quote.  LabView code is at least as hard to debug as a 
>> spreadsheet--easy for trivial cases, but very difficult in
>> complicated ones.
>> 
>> Plus a lot of stuff goes on at the driver level that you don't
>> have access to from user code.  For instance, last time I checked
>> there was no way to find out from user code whether your
>> multichannel MUXed ADC card was sampling all the channels as close
>> together as possible, or helpfully spacing them out evenly within
>> the sample period.
>> 
>> That matters a lot in instruments where you're doing significant
>> amounts of signal processing.
>> 
>> I wouldn't care, except that some customers really want to use
>> LabView with our stuff, and supporting that is painful as well as
>> unproductive.
> 
> So you are saying your customers want you to work in LabView?  Isn't
> it easy enough to say you don't do that???  

Of course.  But since we're moving to an IP licensing + NRE model, it's 
economically important to make it easy for the customer to use our stuff.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

-- 
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

http://electrooptical.net
http://hobbs-eo.com

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A free version of Labview Martin Riddle <martin_ridd@verizon.net> - 2019-09-21 23:02 -0400
  Re: A free version of Labview Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2019-12-28 09:07 -0800
    Re: A free version of Labview Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2019-12-28 12:12 -0500
      Re: A free version of Labview Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2019-12-28 09:37 -0800
        Re: A free version of Labview Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2019-12-28 14:21 -0500
          Re: A free version of Labview Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2019-12-28 11:36 -0800
            Re: A free version of Labview Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2019-12-28 15:08 -0500
              Re: A free version of Labview Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> - 2019-12-28 13:22 -0800
                Re: A free version of Labview Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2019-12-28 17:50 -0500

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