| Paradigms | procedural, imperative, structured |
|---|---|
| Family | ALGOL |
| Designed by | Philip Woodward, I. F. Currie, M. Griffiths |
| Developer | Royal Radar Establishment |
| First appeared | 1964 |
| Typing discipline | Static, strong |
| Scope | Lexical |
| Implementation language | BCPL |
| Platform | CTL Modular-1, DEC Alpha, GEC, Ferranti, Honeywell, HPE Integrity Servers, Interdata 8/32, PDP-11, SPARC, VAX, x86, Intel 8080, Zilog Z80, Motorola 68000 |
| OS | OpenVMS,[1] BSD Unix, Linux, Solaris |
| Influenced by | |
| ALGOL, JOVIAL, Fortran | |
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.[2] The R was originally for "radar", not "real-time".[3] 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 Woodward, Wetherall, and Gorman, was first published in 1970.[4]
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. This process was later adopted by the US Department of Defense while defining Ada.
- ^ "Gain the advantage with CORAL, CORAL+ and Context" (PDF). DXC Technology. September 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 January 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Ferranti_1968was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Gough, Jack (1993). 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. HMSO. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-11-772723-6.
- ^ Woodward, Philip M. (1970). Official Definition of CORAL 66. Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). pp. vii+58. ISBN 0114702217 – via Internet Archive.