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> 1954 – ПП-2 (Kamynin/Liubimskii) > 1955 – ПП (Ershov) What was going on here?
by t-3 4y ago
> 1954 – ПП-2 (Kamynin/Liubimskii)
> 1955 – ПП (Ershov)
What was going on here?
- monista 4y agoFor some reason they don't mention ukrainian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_programming_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_programming_language which, according to some sources, was used to program soviet ballistic missiles.
- int_19h 4y agoIn Russian sources that I can find, it goes like this: 1954 - ПП-1 (prototype / proof of concept) 1955 - ПП-2 (for Strela-1) 1955 - ПП БЭСМ (for BESM) Followed by more versions for various new mainframes that appeared, named by suffixing "ПП" with the name of the hardware - e.g. there were distinct versions of ПП for Strela-3, Strela-4, and Strela-7. The abbreviation itself stands for "программирующая программа", "a program that programs". So it sounds like it was originally a name of the specific prototype, but then became a generic term for any kind of compiler for a short while (later replaced by "translator", probably under the influence of FORTRAN and ALGOL).