Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter

 (github.com)

7 points | by begoon 3 days ago

2 comments

  • ymir_e 1 minute ago
    The playground on [demin.ws/rapira](https://demin.ws/rapira/) feels well made.

    This is a pretty cool historical artifact.

    Does anyone use "native language" programming languages in education or day to day?

  • gus_massa 1 day ago
    It feels like Pascal in Cyrillic. Autotranslation, with a little manual correction, but I can't fix КНЦ (autotranlated to KNC):

      FUNC FACT (N);
     NAME: R;
     1 -> P;
     FOR I FROM 1 TO N ::
        R * I -> R
     ALL
  RES: R
  KNC;

  FOR N FROM 0 TO 6 ::
     ? "FACT(", N, ") = ", FACT(N)
  ALL;
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    • vbezhenar 1 hour ago
      Few fixes:

      1. "ИМЕНА" is plural, so instead of "NAME:" it's a bit more appropriate to use "NAMES:". Probably should be "VARIABLES" or "VARS" in modern context.

      2. You've got few typos mixing "R" and "P". Should be "R" everywhere.

      3. Instead of "ALL" you should use "DONE".

      4. Instead of "KNC" you should use "END".

      So it would look like this:

          FUNC FACT (N);
      NAMES: R;
      1 -> R;
      FOR I FROM 1 TO N ::
        R * I -> R
      DONE
    RES: R
    END;

    FOR N FROM 0 TO 6 ::
      ? "FACT(", N, ") = ", FACT(N)
    DONE;
    • yeputons 1 hour ago
      I would read «КНЦ» as «КОНЕЦ», literally “an end” or “the end” (Russian does not have anything resembling articles). Who needs vowels, anyway.

      Also, «ВСЕ» feels like «ВСЁ» in this context, I’d translate that as “that’s all”.

    • gus_massa 1 day ago
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