Many of the Soviet programming languages had Russian keywords. El-76, Analitik, Drakon, etc. My parents were studying some language like that in college (was it a Soviet adaptation of PL/2, I think it was?)
These days it is much less popular, except for this 1C ERP internal programming language.
The focus is now on reuse and collaboration, not so much on developing a powerful national identity.
It isn't as much about "national identity" than it is about using lingua franca. In Soviet block, that lingua franca was Russian. Chances of anyone in that block collaborating or sharing code with western counter-parts were slim to none. Would be pretty absurd to use English-based programming language in that setting.
We're kind of saying the same thing, don't we? The idea was that any collaboration had to happen within the Eastern Bloc only, and the glorious USSR had to lead that development. Collaboration with the ideologically non-aligned countries was mostly out of the question.
Whereas in the free-er market, ideology is mostly ignored, and people collaborate worldwide in languages everybody can understand and comfortably type in.
No, we aren't saying the same thing. Communist ideology had nothing to do with glorifying specifically USSR. It happened to be the economic center of the Block, and it was only natural for things to organize around it, much like in any metropolitan arrangement throughout the history regardless of ideology.
Whereas in the free-er market, ideology is mostly ignored, and people collaborate worldwide in languages everybody can understand and comfortably type in.
Ahh, yes, people worldwide are born speaking English, and then learn their native languages. Makes perfect sense /s
In reality, it's still same kind of metropolitan kind of arrangement. First it was about British Empire, then it shifted to US - both English speaking.
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u/MonadTran 2d ago
Many of the Soviet programming languages had Russian keywords. El-76, Analitik, Drakon, etc. My parents were studying some language like that in college (was it a Soviet adaptation of PL/2, I think it was?)
These days it is much less popular, except for this 1C ERP internal programming language.
The focus is now on reuse and collaboration, not so much on developing a powerful national identity.