interface description language

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interface description language - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Interface Description Language
  
     (IDL) A language designed by Nestor, Lamb and Wulf of CMU in
     1981 for describing the data structures passed between parts
     of an application, to provide a language-independent
     intermediate representation.
  
     It forms part of Richard Snodgrass <rts@cs.arizona.edu>'s
     Scorpion environment development system.
  
     Not to be confused with any of the other IDLs.
  
     Mailing list: info-idl@sei.cmu.edu.
  
     ["The Interface Description Language: Definition and Use," by
     Richard Snodgrass, Computer Science Press, 1989, ISBN
     0-7167-8198-0].
  
     [SIGPLAN Notices 22(11) (Nov 1987) special issue].
  
     (1994-11-11)