R-technology: A soviet visual programming environment

Authors:
William K. McHenry
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Year:
1990

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Abstract

R-technology is an indigenous Soviet visual programming environment which was developed by prominent scientists in Kiev. 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. This paper reviews the history of R-technology and presents the major elements of its paradigm. A comparison is made with similar systems which are known in the West and in Japan. R-technology is a promising development which deserves widespread attention.