Draco (the dragon) is a northern
constellation. It is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 constellations listed by
Ptolemy.
It contains the star Thuban, which was once the northern pole star.
Draco was the first lawgiver of ancient
Athens. His laws were particularly harsh, as the death penalty was the punishment for even minor offenses. Hence phraseology such as "draconian punishment" or "draconian laws".
Draco's code of laws was superseded by that of Solon in the early 6th century BC.
Draco was also a
shareware programming language for
CP/M and the
Amiga, created by
Chris Gray[?] in the early
1980s, and discontinued sometime around
1990. Draco 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.
Draco is a genus of small tropical
agamas (about 20
cm including the tail), capable of
gliding by using a gliding skin that is bound to their long ribs.
Draco is a
fictional dragon character in the film
Dragonheart[?], voiced by
Sean Connery.