I had the pleasure of interviewing Steve Watts. I recorded this interview back in February, but only now had a chance to publish it. Steve has been writing industrial software for more than 25 years and began programming with LabVIEW in 1998. He is the co-owner of SSDC Ltd (Structured Software Design Consultants). His book, entitled “A Software Engineering Approach to LabVIEW” has achieved worldwide success. Some of the principles described in the book (LCOD) are still used to this day and are the easiest way to implement modular componentized reusable code. The design pattern is also know today as an action engine.