Grail was a free extensible multi-platform

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written in the

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. The project was started in August 1995, with its first public release in November of that year.Grail - The Browser For The Rest Of Us (DRAFT)
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code. The name Grail is thought to be a tribute to ''

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'', a film by the British comedy group

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. The name follows a similar suit to that of

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's─the programming language was too named after Monty Python.

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