jerzy.karczmarczuk@info.unicaen.fr writes:
And, PLEASE, Artem V. Andreev, before you say plainly again that I am "definitely wrong". I didn't invent what I say, and I hope nobody can accuse me of any inimical thoughts against Russians. I had not the slightest intention to accuse you of anything. Nor did I want to defend how U.S.S.R treated scientists and all that. But I really wonder where you get it from that in U.S.S.R computer science was treated in any way *differently* from any other branches of science? Hardware engineering -- yep, that was a kind of disaster. Which of course cannot but have absolutely negative impact on programming as well as theoretical computer science. But I have never heard that U.S.S.R authorities banned any kind of software development as such, on the ground that there were enough mathematicians around...
Do you think that I haven't heard about A.P. Yershov? ACM still cites him, his papers on the system ALPHA (JACM 1966), programming of arith. ops. (CACM 1958), etc. Some other names deserve mentioning as well. But what the system did, cannot be defended. This "School of computer science" gave some theory to the humanity. But no, or almost no software, sorry. That's of course true. But that does not mean that no software were being developped; that only means the software did not cross the borders...
-- S. Y. A(R). A.