Microsoft Visual Programming Language

[williamlweaver]

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@Ben wrote:

Christian asked "What guarantees that the "All Done!" is spoken after, and not before,..."

If we aply LV-noob-think to that question the answer is "The number is ... TexttoSpeech" is above and to the left of the other so it MUST execute first.

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 10-22-2007 10:43 AM

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Hey Ben,

Excellent observation...  Back in my days in ultrafast lasers and high-speed electronics, the signal propagating along the shorter wire arrived first.

Perhaps MS has designed MS-VLP with near-term arrival of optical computing in mind?   ...with homage to Y2K, that is forward thinking at is best... 

-Bill  =]

[smercurio_fc]

Very interesting. Don't know how rubust this language would be for large-scale programs, and it seems to be designed for use in robotics programming, rather than general-purpose use. Kind of reminds of HP-VEE more than it does of LabVIEW.

[Wayne.C]

I would appear that Mr Gates is miffed that the all the kiddies in the schools are programming their LEGO Mindstorm robots with NI software and not MS products. 

MS has always been pretty aggressive about getting their products into the schools.

[williamlweaver]

Actually, I hope NI can follow Microsoft's lead and provide Visio-style spline-fit wires between components.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb483088.aspx

Just imagine how much faster our LV apps will run if we could remove all of those high resistance 90-degree data pipe bends!

-Bill  =]

[Ben]

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Just imagine how much faster our LV apps will run if we could remove all of those high resistance 90-degree data pipe bends!

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5-stars for reading my mind.

Ben

[parthabe]

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@centerbolt wrote:

I would appear that Mr Gates is miffed that the all the kiddies in the schools are programming their LEGO Mindstorm robots with NI software and not MS products. 

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Afterall, their Xbox has been developed [ I imply 'tested' ] using PXI n LV.

[tst]

It seems that graphical (or partially graphical) languages are becoming very popular now.

A couple of other examples:

• Scratch.
• Alice.
• I saw the beta of Visual Studio 2008 and it has something which is is highly reminiscient of the state chart module - it allows creating a higher level diagram of the code.

I'm sure there are kinds of others around as well.

[tbob]

A few years ago (about 4), some company came up with a Visual Basic plugin called Softwire that allowed graphical programming in the Visual Studio environment.  I played with it a little but never used it.  Has anyone else heard of Softwire?

Here is a link to Softwire: http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/products/dataacqu/computerboards/softwire/

Message Edited by tbob on 11-12-2007 02:52 PM

[tst]

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tbob wrote:

Has anyone else heard of Softwire?

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I never saw it in action, but I definitely heard about. Read this interesting thread from the LAVA forums (and be sure to read all the way to the twist ending).

[altenbach]

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tst wrote:
A couple of other examples:

• Scratch.
• ...

I'm sure there are kinds of others around as well.

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Curiously, I actually played with scratch a while ago. Interesting UI.

Another one is Peter (http://www.gemtree.com/peter.htm). Looks quite linear, though.

Wikipedia has a big list of visual programming languages and dataflow programming:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming

It seems graphical programming is very popular with music editing.

Really cool looking code can be done in Piet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet) 🙂