besm

I have a commented example: https://github.com/xldenis/besm/blob/master/examples/chapter... I tried to transliterate the syntax to ascii but the 'real' syntax uses some characters which are hard to represent in monospace text.

Indeed, I only provided direct translations of the programs Ershov and Knuth wrote, I never did much in the way work beyond that, my focus was mainly on recreating the compiler itself. For that I actually copied the pages of the book into the the comments of the code: https://github.com/xldenis/besm/blob/master/compile-pp/src/B...

The stuff at https://github.com/besm6 is great! Being much later, the programs are substantial, but it gives a better sense than the simplified examples like https://github.com/xldenis/besm/blob/master/examples/chapter... .

Oh I love this project, its very interesting to think about its relation to the family tree of soviet programming languages. From the start (ie: 1946-48) they conceptualized programming through the notional of 'logical schemas' or 'logical operators' which were a pseudo-textual notation for flow charts. They went so far as to develop entire theories for the analysis, and optimization of these logical schemas. Another fascinating language was Analitik which was a language for CAS (like Matlab) developped by V. Glushkov in Ukraine. There exists a fantastic website about programming languages in the ussr: http://www.compiler.su/ekskurs-v-istoriyu-razrabotok-yazykov... There are also entire journals worth of these papers on PL design from the '50s which have been translated to english and sit rotting in university shelves. edit: there's actua

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