From: robin_listas@es.invalid
On 2026-01-18 01:49, c186282 wrote:
> On 1/17/26 07:11, Nuno Silva wrote:
>> On 2026-01-15, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>
>>> On 2026-01-13 00:40, Nuno Silva wrote:
>>>> On 2026-01-12, rbowman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:39:01 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Those are diffs of text files. If you applied them to something
>>>>>> written
>>>>>> in a visual programming language the best you’d get is a diff of
>>>>>> whatever internal representation the language implementation used.
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, got it. I was associating 'visual' with Visual C++ etc, not
>>>>> Scratch.
>>>>> I didn't know that was used outside of grade school.
>>>>
>>>> While I do not have much experience with this kind of programming, I've
>>>> at least encountered Simulink and Grafcet.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You can see here how the code looks, it is a box graphic:
>>>
>>> >> File:Labview_code_example.png>
>>>
>>>
>>> Despite the name, it is not only for use in labs, we did production
>>> code for factories.
>>
>> Ah yes, definitely heard of it, although I think I've never used it
>> myself.
>
> If it can run a gas chromatograph machine it
> can run a giant production reactor for making
> polyethylene. LabView had a pretty good rep
> and I have heard of it being used for "factory
> stuff" as well.
>
> Old old days, banks of clickey relays and analog
> I/O. Then transistors. Now, software & digital.
> Tomorrow, digital 'AI' and humans will be mostly
> out of the loop.
The hurdle was that we were using Windows 95, and it could crash.
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Cheers, Carlos.
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