monkeyhead
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Preference for control? Please discuss technical and anecdotal reasoning.
Peter Nachtwey said:However no one will ever use ladder to write an operating system.
.Why do people use ladder? Because it is graphical. It doesn't require a linker and locator adn most important, one can do on-line edits. However no one will ever use ladder to write an operating system.
IfL D[AR2 said:Does this count as ladder ?
S7Guy said:If a bubba can't figure it out, then they will get a different bubba.
Ladder is OK for some types of control programming but it is not the best language out there for control programming.rsdoran said:.
Your point is?
What feature did I mentioned didn't make ladder easier to use for engineers and electricians too.That statement was ridicolous, ladder was just to offer a method for bubba's, like me, to be able to undertand.
So we must respect the bubba union and write no code a bubba can't understand. That is ridiculous. Control does not begin and end with ladder used in PLCs. What about the firmware code in the PLCs and drives that you use? The ladder y'all write is a trivial amount compared to all the lines of code that goes into PLC firmware. I think my answer is reasonable for one who develops firmware and rarely does PLC programming.Y'all do eveyhing you can to make things so proprietary that only some of y'all can do it.
S7Guy said:As long as I structure my code well (as everyone should), people don't have a problem understanding it. If a bubba can't figure it out, then they will get a different bubba.