IDEAL
1. Ideal DEductive Applicative Language. A language by Pier Bosco and Elio
Giovannetti combining Miranda and Prolog. Function definitions can have a guard
condition (introduced by ":-") which is a conjunction of equalities between
arbitrary terms, including functions. These guards are solved by normal Prolog
resolution and unification. It was originally compiled into C-Prolog but was
eventually to be compiled to K-leaf.
2. A numerical constraint language written by Van Wyk of Stanford in 1980 for
typesetting graphics in documents. It was inspired partly by Metafont and is
distributed as part of Troff.
["A High-Level Language for Specifying Pictures", C.J. Van Wyk, ACM Trans
Graphics 1(2):163-182 (Apr 1982)].
(1994-12-15)
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