Rapira Reborn
A Guide to the Soviet-era Programming Language from the
80s
I believe that it's imperative for us, the future generation of
programmers, to preserve computing history. If no one is to
learn the features of any piece of computing history, we'd let
vital parts of the journey that brought computers this far go
unarchived and forgotten. So, much like people would with
endangered spoken languages and cultures in the real world, we
must take the time to educate ourselves on old and beautiful
aspects of computing.
That's why I wrote
Rapira Reborn, the world's first guide to a fascinating
Soviet programming language from the 1980s. I hope you'll join
me in this journey of exploring Rapira, one of the most
interesting yet largely untouched languages in the world.