coral

adj : of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color

n 1: a variable color averaging a deep pink

2: the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a

delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry [syn: {red

coral}, {precious coral}]

3: unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as

garnish or to color sauces

4: marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous

skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming

reefs

CORAL

1. {Class Oriented Ring Associated Language}.

2. A {deductive database} and {logic programming} system based

on {Horn-clause} rules with extensions like {SQL}'s {group-by}

and {aggregation} operators. CORAL was developed at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is implemented in C:: and

has a {Prolog}-like {syntax}.

Many evaluation techniques are supported, including {bottom-up

fixpoint evaluation} and top-down {backtracking}. {Modules}

are separately compiled; different evaluation methods can be

used in different modules within a single program.

Disk-resident data is supported via an interface to the

{Exodus} storage manager. There is an on-line help facility.

It requires {AT&T} {C::} 2.0 (or {G::} soon) and runs on

{Decstation} and {Sun4}.

{(ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/)}

(1993-01-29)