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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)