CORAL 66 is a structured, ALGOL-derived programming language developed in the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s, standardized in 1966 for use in embedded and real-time military and industrial systems, its name deriving from Computer On-line Real-time Applications Language. CORAL 66 was adopted extensively by the UK Ministry of Defence and remained in production use for avionics and defense systems well into the 1990s, valued for the reliability and predictability its restricted, disciplined ALGOL-like subset offered for real-time control code.
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First ReleasedSource says CORAL was originally developed in 1964; its CORAL 66 definition was first published in 1970. SignificanceSelected in 1971 by the UK Ministry of Defence as the language for future military applications, with a standardization program for compilers. 1 Connections
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1. CORAL 66 (Wikipedia)
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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.
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In 1971, CORAL was selected by the 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.
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