regisphilbin Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Press release yesterday. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2...vailablePR.mspx Quote Link to comment
LAVA 1.0 Content Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Press release yesterday.http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2...vailablePR.mspx What is especially interesting is the fact the Microsoft released a Microsoft Visual Programming Language together with the Robotic Studio. It's a some sort of dataflow language, not too similar to LabVIEW however. The UI of the language is slow. The programming seems to require some typing to define variable names and conditions. I think that the language is still more like an prototype, but it's interesting that there are alternative players on the market besides NI. The Robotic Studio required .NET 3.0. This makes me beleave that the Robotic Studio is based on Windows Workflow Foundaition (WF), which is a kind of framework for defining workflow (read dataflow) languages. WF could open the door for the development of real OpenG language indipendent of LabVIEW. Quote Link to comment
Mike Ashe Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Interesting about the visual language release. This thing targets the LEGO Mindstorms NXT as well (or at least the prerelease did). Since the basic LabVIEW patents expire real soon I also think this could be a slide by MS into G type programming. But I wouldn't hold my breath on it being anywhere near "open" G, as MS is seldom in the open camp. Quote Link to comment
i2dx Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 A visual programming language that enables nonprogrammers to easily program hmpf ... sorry, but this is marketing bulls%&" Quote Link to comment
Mike Ashe Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 hmpf ... sorry, but this is marketing bulls%&" Hmm, if this were "the other forum" I would wonder if it wouldn't get deleted Quote Link to comment
i2dx Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 Hmm, if this were "the other forum" I would wonder if it wouldn't get deleted that's why I do not post in the other forum - but it's a phrase from the Microsoft website, not from NI. Whatever, I hold the opinion, if you want to program some piece of hardware, you have to have some skills. No programming language or code generator can replace the knowledge of a programmer. Neither can Express VIs replace the knowledge of how to correctly acquire data nor can a "robotics toolset" create Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 But I wouldn't hold my breath on it being anywhere near "open" G, as MS is seldom in the open camp.And NI is? Are you implying that LAbVIEW is Open? Quote Link to comment
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