rube classic

[jeffneuner]

Just started a new job developing new systems and cleaning up existing systems. 

Came across this beauty in their archives. 

This is but a small snapshot of a much more horrifying display.

The basic premise is this: tester is running four test systems in parallel.

So the LV coder made individual case structures to contain every control on the front panel.

Then put them all in a for loop to update them all in sequence. 

This same process was repeated throughout the entire VI. It is a marvel to behold!

Imagine the (wasted) time and dedication it took this person to create a case structure for every control on the front panel, and populate each one with a local variable!!

Boggles the mind.

[smercurio_fc]

Looks like the programmer came from a text-based programming background. Feel free to post this in the Local Variables thread or the Rube Goldberg thread. It's a candidate for either one.

[F._Schubert]

But even from the old text-based background on initializing everything directly, the multiple case structures don't make sense. Even the text based code would look stupid:

for i=0 to 3 do

  // Control1

  case i

     0: control1_1=0

     1: control1_2=0

     2: control1_3=0

     3: control1_4=0

     // don't forget to add another case if there is one more test station

  end

  case i

  //ok, let's initialize the next control....

Felix