Programmers already know how hard it is to Google certain bits of programming syntax (operators like "===", "and", etc), but fortunately most of the things we need to lookup end up being nice, unique function names (SetupUninstallOEMInf, etc).
On the other hand, it turns out that Googling LabVIEW functions is just about impossible, if you're trying to figure out what "graphical squiggle FOO" represents :-( Short of taking a screenshot, cropping to the icon in question, then doing a Google Images search for similar images (I haven't quite gotten to that level of frustration yet), you really have to know what the doohickey is called before you can search on it. And if you knew what it was called, you wouldn't be searching.
Anyway, I'm slowly coming to appreciate that perhaps there is a place in this universe for LabVIEW (if not in my heart, in particular), but it does require a change in learning styles...
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