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LabVIEW is a graphical system design and development platform created by National Instruments, first released as version 1.0 for the Apple Macintosh in October 1986 and later extended to Windows, macOS and Linux. Its underlying language, generally called G, is a visual, dataflow based programming language in which a program is built by wiring together graphical nodes rather than writing text, and a node runs as soon as all of the data it needs is available, which lets multiple nodes execute at the same time without the programmer writing explicit multithreaded code. LabVIEW is widely used for data acquisition, instrument control and industrial automation, letting engineers who are not primarily programmers design and run complex test and measurement systems, supported by a large ecosystem of device drivers and third party libraries that has made it a standard tool in laboratory and industrial test and measurement settings. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
First Released
1986 1
Significance
LabVIEW is widely used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation, providing tools for designing and deploying complex test and measurement systems. 2
Classification
License
Proprietary (Closed Source) 1
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Source Wikipedia: LabVIEW

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1. Wikidata: LabVIEW
  • Wikidata Q746261, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
  • Wikidata Q746261 P275 (license)
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2. Wikipedia: LabVIEW
  • Lead section
    It is widely used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation. It provides tools for designing and deploying complex test and measurement systems.
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead sentence
    Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) is a graphical system design and development platform produced and distributed by National Instruments, based on a programming environment that uses a visual programming language.
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