Quite true. A lot cheaper in many cases.
HUH ?
I find that it takes me 2 - 3 times longer to program / debug a CLX system:
1. Less logic on the screen due to tag names causing less contacts to be displayed in a view. Maybe they have (post v11) made tagnames use multiple lines ?
2. Slower screen update of contacts & registers. I'm talking direct serial from my laptop.
3. Have to scroll back & forth in the tag file (monitor mode) to see tag values that are not being displayed in the logic vs either see a lot of values in a SLC data table or custom monitor. Is there something in CLX I'm missing ?
4. Having to type in / define a tag for every bit & register & I/O point (besides the standard description & comment I put in regardless of system) vs just having them all predefined as something like N7:12
In fact, in the next CLX system I do, I'm going to make my tags in Excel in the form of N7xxx, since I'll have a multi-line description too, an import them to CLX. That should save on typing, screen real estate, ... No Flames on this, my mind is made up. Did the same for Siemens S7 and saved loads of time. And yes I program in many computer languages so I know about variable names & typing them , ...