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)
Nearby terms:
interface analysis « Interface Architect « Interface
Definition Language « Interface Description
Language
» Interface Message Processor » Interior Gateway
Protocol » interlace
|
