Intuitive Graphical Programming Language for Engineers and Scientists

For more than 20 years, the popularity of the National Instruments LabVIEW software for beginner and experienced programmers in so many different engineering applications and industries can be attributed to the software's intuitive graphical programming language used for automating measurement and control systems. The NI LabVIEW graphical dataflow language and block diagram approach naturally represent the flow of data and intuitively map user interface controls to data, so programmers can easily view and modify data or control inputs.

For novice programmers, LabVIEW Express technology transforms common measurement and automation tasks into much higher-level, intuitive VIs. With Express technology, thousands of nonprogrammers have taken advantage of the LabVIEW platform to build automated systems quickly and easily.

For experienced programmers, LabVIEW delivers the performance, flexibility, and compatibility of a traditional programming language such as C or BASIC. In fact, the full-featured LabVIEW programming language has the same constructs that traditional languages have - variables, data types, objects, looping, and sequencing structures as well as error handling. And, with LabVIEW, programmers can reuse legacy code packaged as DLLs or shared libraries and integrate with other software using ActiveX, TCP, and other standard technologies.