Draco (programming language)

Draco

Paradigm(s)	imperative (procedural), structured
Appeared in	early 1980s, discontinued around 1990
Designed by	Chris Gray
Typing discipline	static, strong, manifest
Influenced by	ALGOL 68, Pascal, C
OS	CP/M, Amiga
License	copyrighted shareware
Usual filename extensions	.d .g

Draco was a shareware programming language for CP/M and the Amiga, created by Chris Gray in the early 1980s, and discontinued sometime around 1990. ^[1]

Draco, a blend of Pascal, C and ALGOL 68, was a strongly typed language most notable for its ability to produce small, optimized executables, and for the compiler's ability to work in very limited memory spaces. Gray himself used Draco for the Amiga to create a port of Peter Langston's Empire game, called Amiga Empire.

There is a freeware Draco-to-C converter available at Aminet. Also, the source code of Draco (which is itself written in Draco) is now also available at Aminet.

References

1. ^ Free Online Dictionary of Computing

External links

• CP/M distribution
• Draco Author Chris Grays compiler page covering Draco