cdl

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cdl - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  CDL
  
     1. Computer Definition [Design?] Language.  A hardware
     description language.  "Computer Organisation and
     Microprogramming", Yaohan Chu, P-H 1970.
  
     2. Command Definition Language.  Portion of ICES used to
     implement commands.  Sammet 1969, p.618-620.
  
     3. Compiler Description Language.  C.H.A. Koster, 1969.
     Intended for implementation of the rules of an affix grammar
     by recursive procedures.  A procedure may be a set of
     tree-structured alternatives, each alternative is executed
     until one successfully exits.  Used in a portable COBOL-74
     compiler from MPB, mprolog system from SzKI, and the Mephisto
     chess computer.  "CDL: A Compiler Implementation Language", in
     Methods of Algorithmic Language Implementation, C.H.A. Koster,
     LNCS 47, Springer 1977, pp.341-351.  "Using the CDL Compiler
     Compiler", C.H.A. Koster, 1974.  Versions: CDL2, CDLM used at
     Manchester.
  
     4. Common Design Language.  "Common Design Language", IBM,
     Software Engineering Inst, Sept 1983.
  
     5. Control Definition Language.  Ideas which contributed to
     Smalltalk.
  
     ["Control Structures for Programming Languges", David
     A. Fisher, PhD Thesis, CMU 1970].