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Re:What programming languages were used by the Soviet Union'... by DanI-S on Monday June 04, 2012 @02:21PM (#4065151)
That certainly seems to be the case, but I'm not sure that it was the intention.
Re:What programming languages were used by the Soviet Union'... by yzhengyu on Monday June 04, 2012 @06:13PM (#4066231)
Well, having worked with various 4GLs that were meant to improve productivity and produce re-usable code, ones that are being used merely add more accidental complexity rather than reduce it.

And a diagram (in such a 4GL) does not help when it has hundreds of decision nodes and the end-user (read: a human being) visual system can only deal with at most 10 nodes.

It is also very amusing when the executives finally realize how unnecessarily complex their order processing chain is.