oral

adj 1: using speech rather than writing; "an oral tradition"; "an

oral agreement [syn: {unwritten}]

2: of or relating to or affecting or for use in the mouth;

"oral hygiene"; "an oral thermometer"; "an oral vaccine"

3: (anatomy) of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the

surface on which the mouth is located; "the oral cavity";

"the oral mucous membrane"; "the oral surface of a

starfish" [ant: {aboral}]

4: (psychoanalysis) a stage in psychosexual development when

the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth;

fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence,

selfishness, and aggression [ant: {anal}]

n : an examination conducted by word of mouth [syn: {oral exam},

{oral examination}, {viva voce}]

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)