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Drakon: a visual language for specifications from the Russian space program

drakon-editor.sourceforge.net Software & code Software projects Software engineering Candidate

Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

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2012–2016
peak thread · 39 comments
278 pts
latest 20+ return · 2016-10-04
278 pts

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This is great work. FYI spacex uses LabView http://www.ni.com/labview/ (amongst other stuff) I wonder if you could use annotations to manage the visuals e.g http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/folder-night.png You'd have an inline annotation to separate the code blocks and generate the visuals so you don't have to maintain/update two places. Any tool that does that? Also, integrating different level of complexity using system 1,2,3 (from https://www.amazon.ca/Software-Requirements-3rd-Karl-Wiegers...) to…

hbt·278-point thread·

I've been using it for a while and documented my experiences at http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/04/use-drakon-to-generate-code-...

edent·126-point thread·

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