meaning of interface description language

1. 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 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 2211 Nov 1987 special issue].

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