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{{Short description|Early programming language}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox programming language | name = Coral 66 | logo = <!-- Filename only --> | logo caption = | screenshot = <!-- Filename only --> | screenshot caption = | paradigms = [[Procedural programming|procedural]], [[Imperative programming language|imperative]], [[Structured programming|structured]] | family = [[ALGOL]] | designers = [[Philip Woodward]], I. F. Currie, M. Griffiths | developer = [[Royal Radar Establishment]] | released = {{Start date and age|1964}} | latest release version = | latest release date = <!-- {{Start date and age|19yy|mm|dd|df=yes}} --> | typing = [[Static type|Static]], [[Strong and weak typing|strong]] | scope = [[Scope (computer science)|Lexical]] | programming language = [[BCPL]] | discontinued = | platform = [[Computer Technology Limited|CTL]] [[Computer Technology Limited#Modular One|Modular-1]], [[DEC Alpha]], [[General Electric Company|GEC]], [[Ferranti]], [[Honeywell]], [[HPE Integrity Servers]], Interdata 8/32, [[PDP-11]], [[SPARC]], [[VAX]], [[x86]], [[Intel 8080]], [[Zilog Z80]], [[Motorola 68000]] | operating system = [[OpenVMS]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://assets1.dxc.technology/manufacturing/downloads/MD_6841a-18_Coral_Offer_Overview_v4.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123102547/https://assets1.dxc.technology/manufacturing/downloads/MD_6841a-18_Coral_Offer_Overview_v4.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-23 |url-status=live|title=Gain the advantage with CORAL, CORAL+ and Context|publisher=[[DXC Technology]]|date=September 2017|access-date=2021-12-29}}</ref> [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]] [[Unix]], [[Linux]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]] | license = | file ext = | file format = <!-- or: | file formats = --> | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.com}} --> | implementations = | dialects = | influenced by = [[ALGOL]], [[JOVIAL]], [[Fortran]] | influenced = }} '''CORAL''', short for '''Computer On-line Real-time Applications Language''' is a [[programming language]] originally developed in 1964 at the [[Royal Radar Establishment]] (RRE), [[Malvern, Worcestershire]], in the United Kingdom.<ref name="Ferranti_1968"/> The R was originally for "radar", not "real-time".<ref>{{cite book |first=Jack |last=Gough |title=Watching the skies: a history of ground radar for the air defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1975 |publisher=HMSO |isbn=978-0-11-772723-6 |date=1993 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHcfAQAAIAAJ |page=264}}</ref> It was influenced primarily by [[JOVIAL]], and thus [[ALGOL]], but is not a [[subset]] of either. The most widely-known version, '''CORAL 66''', was subsequently developed by I. F. Currie and M. Griffiths under the auspices of the ''Inter-Establishment Committee for Computer Applications'' (IECCA). Its official definition, edited by [[Philip Woodward|Woodward]], Wetherall, and Gorman, was first published in 1970.<ref>{{cite book |last=Woodward |first=Philip M. |author-link=Philip Woodward |date=1970 |title=Official Definition of CORAL 66 |url=https://archive.org/details/official-definition-of-coral-66 |publisher=[[Office of Public Sector Information|Her Majesty's Stationery Office]] (HMSO) |pages=vii+58 |isbn=0114702217 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> In 1971, CORAL was selected by the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]] as the language for future military applications and to support this, a standardization program was introduced to ensure CORAL compilers met the specifications. This process was later adopted by the [[US Department of Defense]] while defining [[Ada programming language|Ada]].
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