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IDL specification language

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IDL (short for Interface Description Language) is a software interface description language created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queen's University.

IDL data structures were meant to be dealt by software in various programming languages, e.g. phases of an Ada can be implemented in different programming languages.

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