Very true. One of the things I love about Drakon is its
ancient-ness. The head of it is a 78 year old Russian space
engineer who has published several lengthy tomes on Drakon over
the years in Russian. I ran his 2012 book through Google
Translate just so I could read it and on Russian forums, he's
currently complaining about the difficulties his translation
team is having getting to English. But I don't care about
perfection and thankfully he's a fan of the whole copy-freely so
if he finds out I translated it into English he won't mind. I
like that it creates State Machines in several languages. The
code is regular code. If someone wants to tweak it afterwards,
they can. But for rapid prototyping - to get something that
works and quickly, it's a good thing. Is it the next thing?
Probably not. The developers took the project far more seriously
than most people do - getting mathematicians, engineers, project
managers etc all together to make the "Once And For All"
Universal programming langauge. It launched several automated
space vehicles successfully and it's in current use by the
Russian space program. It's main flaw is a lack of materials in
other languages - it's a VERY RUSSIAN piece of software.. and
its the love of this guy's life 40 years. That kind of devotion
- that kind of brain-power put to something must count for
something, I figure, so I'm giving it a shot.
