IDL specification language

Not to be confused with IDL (programming language).

IDL (Interface Description Language) is a software interface description language (or interface descriptor language) created by William Wulf and John Nestor of Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, and David Lamb of Queen's University in Canada.

History

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.

The Karlsruhe Ada compilation system used IDL resp. DIANA and its predecessor AIDA,[1][2] and for marshalling the vanilla IDL External Representation.

BiiN's DBMS used IDL as well, and for marshalling a more compact binary IDL External Representation.

Notes

  1. ^ Goos, Gerhard; Wulf, William A.; Evans, Arthur; Butler, Kenneth J. (2000). DIANA: an intermediate language for Ada. Lecture Notes In Computer Science. Vol. 161. springer. ISBN 0-387-12695-3.
  2. ^ Goos, Gerhard; Winterstein, Georg (1980). "Towards a compiler front-end for Ada". Proceedings of the ACM-SIGPLAN symposium on Ada programming language. Annual International Conference on Ada. ACM-SIGPLAN. pp. 36–46. Retrieved 2016-02-10.

References

  • David Alex Lamb, Sharing intermediate representations: the interface description language, Ph.D. Dissertation, Carnegie-Mellon University, Department of Computer Science, 1983
  • David Alex Lamb, "IDL: sharing intermediate representations", ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 9:3:297-318 (July 1987)
  • John Nestor, Joseph M. Newcomer, Paola Gianinni, and Donald Stone, IDL: The language and its Implementation, Prentice-Hall, 1990.
  • Richard Snodgrass, The Interface Description Language: Definition and Use, W.H. Freeman, 1989
  • J Nestor, William Allan. Wulf, David Alex Lamb, IDL, Interface Description Language, Technical Report, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1981

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