իմ սիրված մեյլ լիստի ամենահարգված մարդկանցից մեկն է գրել սա․

Ես իհարկե ԼաբՎյու֊ի միայն կազմին եմ ծանոթ։ Բայց ինձ դա հերիք էր այն չսիրելու համար։

According to my observations, LabView enables to make rapid apparent

progress at the cost of very little work. LabView GUI builder allows to

quickly assemble impressive GUIs which are then successfully presented at

various meetings, design reviews, etc. A spirited discussion over such a

GUI conveys impression of rapid progress, creativity, and competence of

the engineer. The substance behind the GUI is never discussed, because

some attendees (esp. managers) are neither competent nor interested in

technical details, while other attendees (engineers) play the same kind of

the game.

One day, after many months of apparent progress, the application is

supposed to run. It poses a problem, because in fact the LabView GUI is an

empty facade with nothing behind to make it run. In the institution which

I am basing these remarks on, this problem was typically handled by hiring

a summer student who would sweat over filling in the empty space. At the

end of the summer the student would gain “valuable educational

experience”, the engineer would collect credit, and the management would

be happy.

These remarks can possibly shed some light on the troubling question why

BlackBox was never a market success on par with LabView, despite its

internal strength. In my opinion it is so, because BlackBox is an exact

opposite to a successful corporate product. BlackBox focuses on the

substance, while LabView focuses on creating impression. In the corporate

world substance matters very little, while impressions are everything.

That’s why we on this mailing list are who we are. We all focus on the

substance of our work.

Just my 2 cents of cynicism, as usual.

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