(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.
Scorpion environment development system.
Not to be confused with any of the other
IDLs.
["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)