LabVIEW proverbs!

[Ben]

I was watching the NI-Week 2006 keynote presentation for day 3.

One of the slides was a quote by Albert Einstein.

"The difference between genius and stupidity... is that genius has its limits."

Ben

[Gurdas]

Nice quote, Ben.

But does it fit into this thread?

[Anthony_de_Vries]

Sure it fits in this thread Gurdas...   Ever tried teaching Labview to students? 

Here's my personal quote from those days:
    Labview has given a whole new meaning to 'spaghetti code'

I wish I had saved those programs...   Dennis' 10 commandments would be useless to those.  Making sub-vi's with the input wires to the right...  Not using error lines to streamline code, nor using sequences...   Just put everything everwhere, without any sequence logic to it.   And then the awful thing:  Some of them even worked!   By accident ofcourse... simply because labview was always performing one vi before the other... probably in the order that the student had placed them.   Oh... those were the days. 

[devchander]

Antony,

If your students did get their stuff right, here is is one 'tongue-in-cheek' proverb they could use

' Life does not get easier than LabVIEW'

regards

Dev

[TiTou]

Nice ones Dev, Anthony and Ben ! 😄

I quite like that one too :

When you are in a hole, stop digging !

[Ben]

A line from page 4-4 of the Advanced Applications Development course manual reads;

"XControls are powerful, difficult to create."

Ben

[Ben]

Still on X-Controls

In this thread on LAVA Michael writes

http://forums.lavag.org/Xcontrol-Help-Convert-State-For-Save-Ability-t5678.html

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Well, the more I work with Xcontrols, the more I realize that there is a SERIOUS lack of documentation or examples for them.

Can someone shed some light on the Convert State For Save Ability and how the hell I'm suppose to freakin' use it?

"

Ben

[Mellobuck]

Ben Wrote:

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One of the slides was a quote by Albert Einstein.

"The difference between genius and stupidity... is that genius has its limits."

I like to collect proverbs, but three I find very applicable to programming:

1) Adding programmers to an already late project only makes it later.

2) Hofstaedter's rule: Every project will take longer than planned, even when Hofstaedter's rule is taken into account.

3) Appendix to Funyak's rule of closets (Authored by my Father-in-law during his MBA) : Any project will expand to use exactly the time, money and memory available.

Message Edited by Mellobuck on 06-26-2007 02:59 PM

[Ray.R]

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@Ben wrote:

A line from page 4-4 of the Advanced Applications Development course manual reads;

"XControls are powerful, difficult to create."

Ben

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I'd be more concerned with the last sentence on that same page:  "For these reasons, only....."  😉

[Ray.R]

Build software bigger, weaker and slower. Let the customer buy stronger, faster computers with more memory... (VIrtual Sales Team Associates)