This is probably why many programmers experience such difficulty programming (efficiently) PLCs....
Lots of very large, very complicated programs are just "the same code running endlessly". The devil is in the inputs.
PLC code for automated mechanical systems runs into all of the same timing issues etc. Obviously the PLC code is much smaller but this is mostly due to the instructions acting on smaller data sets, but can still be just as complicated,.
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This is probably why many programmers experience such difficulty programming (efficiently) PLCs.... Lots of very large, very complicated programs are just "the same code running endlessly". The devil is in the inputs.
PLC code for automated mechanical systems runs into all of the same timing issues etc. Obviously the PLC code is much smaller but this is mostly due to the instructions acting on smaller data sets, but can still be just as complicated,.