Vladimir Parondzhanov directed the development of DRAKON, a visual algorithmic programming and modeling language whose development began in 1986 as part of the Soviet Buran space program. The work aimed to reduce misunderstandings and errors between users of different programming languages in the Russian space program, and to replace specialized languages used in the Buran project, namely PROL2, DIPOL and LAKS, with one universal language. It involved the Russian Federal Space Agency (Academician Pilyugin Center, Moscow) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics). The work was finished in 1996, when an automated CASE programming system called Grafit-Floks was developed. He is also the author of a 2001 book on algorithms without programmers published in Moscow. The article cited here gives no birth date or other biography.
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The development of DRAKON started in 1986 to address the emerging risk of misunderstandings - and subsequent errors - between users of different programming languages in the Russian space program.
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Its development was directed by Vladimir Parondzhanov with the participation of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Academician Pilyugin Center, Moscow) and Russian Academy of Sciences (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics).
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