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Interesting. That page, and the page on the address programming language, both could use a lot more detail and significant editing. Hopefully more people who speak Russian can contribute to these articles.

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Can anyone find any snippet of the above mentioned language?

There are a couple of articles in Russian on Habr[1][2]. At a glance, it seems like the language was closer to a form of mathematical notation than it was to what we now consider a programming language.

[1] https://habr.com/ru/company/ua-hosting/blog/387837/

[2] https://habr.com/ru/company/ua-hosting/blog/274019/

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Another Soviet technology in software development, sounds very interesting but hard to find information about it: It is named R-Technology a visual programming system said to be still used for critical software in the Russian Space Program:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045926X0...

"The essence of R-technology is the use of weighted, oriented graphs to express control logic and to enforce good programming style. Unlike other developments in visual programming, R-technology can accommodate many programming languages and has been used for numerous development projects. Despite the fact that it has been extensively documented in the Soviet literature, it is practically unknown in the United States."

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Another Soviet technology in software development, sounds very interesting but hard to find information about it: It is named R-Technology a visual programming system said to be still used for critical software in the Russian Space Program: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1045926X0... "The essence of R-technology is the use of weighted, oriented graphs to express control logic and to enforce good p…

PDF link: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S1045-926X(05)800....

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Interesting. That page, and the page on the address programming language, both could use a lot more detail and significant editing. Hopefully more people who speak Russian can contribute to these articles.

Hear hear. I've explored the old USSR via youtubers like bald and bankrupt and various urban explorer channels (and of course, the amazing HBO/Sky show, chernobyl) but I would love something as digestible based on older computing systems from Russia and beyond. Just yesterday, an urban exploration channel found a bunch of abandoned computers in a bunker that I could not find a single reference to on the internet (and that looked fairly intact).

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It seems that this APL (Address Programming Language) notation is kind of a high-level microcode, similar to one used in Intel x86 CPUs, assuming that not only RAM words, but every register and I/O port are also directly addressable.

Of-course microcode is executable, but Address notation was manually translated into each specific CPU architecture.

Since every operation defined as a set, it seems it supported expressing SIMD-style vectorized computations.

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