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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/

https://habrastorage.org/r/w780/files/154/629/59f/15462959ff...

Photo of programmers from 1956. Twelve women, zero men.

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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…

Hey there, those channels you like sound awfully interesting to me as well. Would you mind sharing where you saw this bunker exploration video exactly? Thank you :)

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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/

https://habrastorage.org/r/w780/files/154/629/59f/15462959ff... Photo of programmers from 1956. Twelve women, zero men.

My father worked in one of these Central Calculation Centers in the 80s. Almost all programmers were women. Man tended to work more with the hardware which was considered more "dirty" work since you had to be stuck for hours in those huge machines trying to find the piece that broke. Too bad we lost all our Ada lang, linear programming books...

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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…

Hey there, those channels you like sound awfully interesting to me as well. Would you mind sharing where you saw this bunker exploration video exactly? Thank you :)

For Soviet-era bunkers and similar urbex I suggest you have a look at Shiey (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpXwMqnXfJzazKS5fJ8nrVw/vid...) as well as Urbex Polska's videos on "Sobieskiego 100" (https://www.youtube.com/user/NaszaRzeczywistosc/videos).

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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/

https://habrastorage.org/r/w780/files/154/629/59f/15462959ff... Photo of programmers from 1956. Twelve women, zero men.

That was not uncommon. I went to school both in the United States and the USSR. Back there, almost always the student at the top of their class was a girl.

I remember that American female students struck me like a bunch of divas at first. That's when I realized these things are purely cultural.

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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…

It's not about programming languages, but it contains a lot of information about the birth of cybernetics in the USSR: Red Plenty by Francis Spufford.

Highly recommended!

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https://habrastorage.org/r/w780/files/154/629/59f/15462959ff... Photo of programmers from 1956. Twelve women, zero men.

My father worked in one of these Central Calculation Centers in the 80s. Almost all programmers were women. Man tended to work more with the hardware which was considered more "dirty" work since you had to be stuck for hours in those huge machines trying to find the piece that broke. Too bad we lost all our Ada lang, linear programming books...

If I'm not mistaken this was the case across the board

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There is a good book covering the development of computing in Kyiv in those days:

intro: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/DIFFERENT/StoreEternally.ht... pdf: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/TXT/MalinovskiyBN_StoreEter...

Some more about Kateryna Yushchenko on the Museum's website: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/Ushchenko-memoirs.html

See also: http://www.icfcst.kiev.ua/MUSEUM/museum-map.html

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