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pmlnr on June 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps witho...

Ladder logic used to be fairly big in PLCs a while ago, but PLCs were rather simple.

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PaulWaldman on June 25, 2020 [–]

Ladder Logic is still used heavily in modern industrial automation systems. This isn't to ease development, but to aid in the supportability by folks who don't have a background in software and are used to reading electrical prints.

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