LabVIEW Exceptions: a paradigm shift to error handling in LabVIEW

This is a presentation I gave to about 40 Certified LabVIEW Architects back in March 2010 at the CLA Summit in Austin, TX.  It presents some ideas on ways in which exception handling error techniques that are used in C++ and Java could be incorporated into LabVIEW by National Instruments, and the benefits of these techniques over the error handling techniques currently supported by LabVIEW.  The general feedback I got from talking with people after the presentation was that it was very insightful but would require years of development and test within National Instruments and then years more before the user community would begin to adopt it.  Therefore, National Instruments has to seriously question the Return on Investment of such an enhancement.  Is this a feature request that is likely to generate profit?  Probably not in this decade, I’ll admit to that.  But I think in the long run, I think graphical programming is going to need to incorporate something like this to be considered a serious contender to traditional text based languages.

LabVIEW Exceptions