IDL specification language
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IDL is a software interface description language
(also referred to as Interface Descriptor Language) created by William Wulf
and John Nestor of Carnegie Mellon University
and David Lamb of Queen's University, Canada.
Like other interface description languages, IDL defined interfaces in a language- and machine- independent way, allowing the specification of interfaces between components written in different languages, and possibly executing on different machines using remote procedure calls.
Interface description language
An interface description language , or IDL for short, is a specification language used to describe a software component's interface...
(also referred to as Interface Descriptor Language) created by William Wulf
William Wulf
William Allan Wulf is a computer scientist notable for his work in programming languages and compilers.Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Illinois, receiving a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering, then achieved the first Ph.D. in Computer Science...
and John Nestor of Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
and David Lamb of Queen's University, Canada.
Like other interface description languages, IDL defined interfaces in a language- and machine- independent way, allowing the specification of interfaces between components written in different languages, and possibly executing on different machines using remote procedure calls.