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That was the best presentation content I've seen from NI for many-a-year. Cheekily mentioned (almost under his breath) he'd found a way to use the Match Pattern to replace Regex. I too use Match Pattern instead of regex because it beats the hell out of it for performance but it's never as generic as the regex. I need to know more (with code). Never liked (or used) the Error Constant ( or AF for that matter). Never used PPL's either but I do use lvlibs with the VI's in an LLB - mainly for ease of distribution rather than load performance. The single execution while loop to force clumping was an eye opener. I've never suffered from that but that's gone in my long term must-know memory. Xnodes were always too complicated for me so never used them. Interesting he didn't mention XControls. VIM's I liked until they formalised it and then they did not propagate the type downstream (so I couldn't make my "named events"). So don't make any of those anymore. I agree with his view of text vs VI's. But not for the same reasons. I'm a huge fan of polymorphic VI's with a menu, for example. However. I can read a diagram of VI's I am familiar with (and with good icons) in one glance but I'm not a speed reader. He just doesn't seem to like doing icons whereas I find it a cathartic distraction when stuck on a problem. My obstinate work flow and dumb preferences seem to insulate me from a lot of the issues that others find.