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- CORAL 66
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Coral66 was a compiled structured programming
language, of the Algol family, used for
real-time system development.
Not much is available about Coral, but it
is described as a small, simple language
derived from Algol and Jovial.
It supported conventional control structures,
subroutines, and machine data types like
integers, floats, and pointers. It also
included a facility for adding in-line
assembly code, possibly due to its typical
use for writing embedded control software.
Coral was implemented for many different
mini-computers in the 1970s, and was
also available on the VAX under VMS.
No free Coral66 compilers seem to be
available today.
- Origin:
Royal Signals & Radar Establishment, Malvern UK, 1964-66.
Woodward et al, 1970.
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Coral was used extensively for embedded
system and application development in the
UK military establishment, from the late
1960s until about the mid-1980s.
It was superseded by Ada.
Of the the difficulties reported for Coral
was that the language as standardized (1970)
was
inadequate for many development tasks, so
different compiler vendors added their
own incompatible extensions.
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