ALL meanings of interface description language
- noun Technical meaning of 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 <[email protected]>'s Scorpion environment development system. Not to be confused with any of the other IDLs. Mailing list: [email protected] 1
- noun interface description language (software engineering) A specification language used to describe a software component's interface. 0