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Host Engineering Forum > General Category > DirectSOFT > New Poll! Programming Language of Choice?
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Question: Which combination of programming languages would you prefer to use in a future PLC?
Relay Ladder Logic - 170 (33.8%)
Stage - 83 (16.5%)
Sequential Function Charts (SFC) - 62 (12.3%)
Structured Text/Basic - 59 (11.7%)
Mnemonics/Assembly - 17 (3.4%)
C/C++ - 24 (4.8%)
Java - 9 (1.8%)
Function Block Diagram (FBD) - 28 (5.6%)
Lua - 1 (0.2%)
C#/VB.NET - 32 (6.4%)
Other (please post a comment) - 18 (3.6%)
Total Voters: 204

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« Reply #60 on: November 30, 2009, 05:10:52 pm »
Quote from: Controls Guy on November 30, 2009, 04:58:19 pm
If the latter, I just randomly typed symbols from Shift+Nums, so it was actually Perl.
aka, APL  Grin.  Actually, A Programming Language had its own keyboard with symbols you don't see on a QWERTY keyboard or ASCII table.  Some implmentations had ASCII translations, but it was its own beast (see attached JPG)
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« Reply #61 on: December 10, 2009, 06:30:13 pm »
Pleeeeeeese give us another option other than ladder logic! It's driving me insane! Huh Huh Some sort of traditional language like c/basic or similar would be great. Smiley
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« Reply #62 on: December 10, 2009, 08:52:17 pm »
Quote from: PeeJay on December 10, 2009, 06:30:13 pm
Pleeeeeeese give us another option other than ladder logic! It's driving me insane! Huh Huh Some sort of traditional language like c/basic or similar would be great. Smiley
Have you seen the WinPLC?  It's a 205 CPU that has Windows CE 2.12? on it.
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« Reply #63 on: January 02, 2011, 02:13:49 am »
I don't know how many of you have had access to Allen Bradley RSLogix but after being forced into learning it, I have found many features that make life really easy. It would be nice to see something like this or the P3000 PLC software. Hopefully we will see something new come out for Directsoft in the near future, it is ok for programming but sometimes it seems a little backwards now.

Mike
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« Reply #64 on: January 02, 2011, 11:11:46 am »
Which type of RSLogix (or which PLC) are you referring to? Which features of that programming package do you find especially useful when compared to Directsoft?
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« Reply #65 on: January 04, 2011, 05:25:58 pm »
Quote from: MikeMc on January 02, 2011, 02:13:49 am
Hopefully we will see something new come out for Directsoft in the near future, it is ok for programming but sometimes it seems a little backwards now.

Major development in the closing stages. New PLC, new control engine, new DSP. We are pumped about it, and we think our users will like it. That said, like Bernie, I would love to know what you like the best in the new RSLogix...
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« Reply #66 on: January 06, 2011, 01:01:32 pm »
Data view.    Grin
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« Reply #67 on: February 28, 2012, 01:34:22 pm »
Structured Text.  I love being able to write a supervisory control application directly on the plc that interacts with the real time control elements -- SFC, Function Blocks and Ladder.
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