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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

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/S1045926X05800163 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."

TeMPOraL 7y ago
PDF link: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S1045-926X(05)80016-3 https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S1045-926X(05)800....
ACE_Recliner 7y ago
Re: Soviet visual programming environments, I usually hear DRAKON brought up in that context (as far as what's usually cited in real world use for Buran etc.) I wonder if "R-technology" is either another term for DRAKON or a distinctly different system. Given how underdocumented Soviet high technology (esp around computing and related fields) is in English sources, either can be considered a real possibility.
- vasili111 7y ago
  Its is complitly different. I know DRAKON and it is very different what I see in the article. Also DRAKON is very different from other visual diagraming systems. DRAKON is open but system that is actually used in space programming (if i remember correctly is called Grafit-Floks, https://books.google.com/books?id=0g9kDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=Grafit-Floks&source=bl&ots=F42sHt0oS2&sig=ACfU3U1Qpw7gnRGP760novl0x2OwcsXMvQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYtp-rwKzoAhWEiOAKHbBuCdEQ6AEwC3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Grafit-Floks&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=0g9kDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=...) is not open and as far as I know is not in market. If you are interested in DRAKON there is a forum.drakon.su which has english section and on that forum is made by inventor of DRAKON and he participated in discussion. DRAKON has also wikipedia page.
  - phillc73 7y ago
    HN discussion from 2016 about DRAKON: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12638032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12638032

TeMPOraL 7y ago

PDF link: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S1045-926X(05)80016-3 https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S1045-926X(05)800....

ACE_Recliner 7y ago

Re: Soviet visual programming environments, I usually hear DRAKON brought up in that context (as far as what's usually cited in real world use for Buran etc.) I wonder if "R-technology" is either another term for DRAKON or a distinctly different system. Given how underdocumented Soviet high technology (esp around computing and related fields) is in English sources, either can be considered a real possibility.

vasili111 7y ago
Its is complitly different. I know DRAKON and it is very different what I see in the article. Also DRAKON is very different from other visual diagraming systems. DRAKON is open but system that is actually used in space programming (if i remember correctly is called Grafit-Floks, https://books.google.com/books?id=0g9kDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=Grafit-Floks&source=bl&ots=F42sHt0oS2&sig=ACfU3U1Qpw7gnRGP760novl0x2OwcsXMvQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYtp-rwKzoAhWEiOAKHbBuCdEQ6AEwC3oECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Grafit-Floks&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=0g9kDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA198&lpg=...) is not open and as far as I know is not in market. If you are interested in DRAKON there is a forum.drakon.su which has english section and on that forum is made by inventor of DRAKON and he participated in discussion. DRAKON has also wikipedia page.
- phillc73 7y ago
  HN discussion from 2016 about DRAKON: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12638032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12638032