Interface description language
interface description language or interface definition language (IDL), is a generic term for a language that lets a program or object written in one language communicate with another program written in an unknown language. IDLs describe an inter ...
, any computer language used to describe a software component's interface
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IDL specification language
IDL (''Interface Description Language'') 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 ...
, the original IDL created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queen's University, Canada
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OMG IDL
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms. CORBA enables collaboration between sys ...
, an IDL standardized by Object Management Group selected by the W3C for exposing the DOM of XML, HTML, CSS, and SVG documents
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Microsoft Interface Definition Language
Microsoft Interface Definition Language (MIDL) is a text-based interface description language from Microsoft, based on the DCE/RPC DCE/RPC, short for "Distributed Computing Environment / Remote Procedure Calls", is the remote procedure call system ...
, an extension of OMG IDL for supporting Microsoft's DCOM services
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Web IDL
Web IDL is an interface description language (IDL) format for describing application programming interfaces (APIs) that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Its adoption was motivated by the desire to improve the interoperability of we ...
, a variation of an IDL for describing APIs that are intended to be implemented in Web browsers
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Interactive Data Language
IDL, short for Interactive Data Language, is a programming language used for data analysis. It is popular in particular areas of science, such as astronomy, atmospheric physics and medical imaging. IDL shares a common syntax with PV-Wave and or ...
, a data analysis language popular for science applications
* ICAD Design Language, a knowledge-based engineering language used with the software ICAD
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, formerly named Idlewild Airport with IATA airport code IDL
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Indianola Municipal Airport
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International Date Line
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, the time zone date boundary
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, a defunct major darts tournament
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, a now-defunct independent drug store cooperative
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