IDL[2]

Interface Description Language

John Nestor, David Lamb and William Wulf, Carnegie Mellon University, 1981

A language for description of data structures to be passed between the components of an application, to provide a language-independent intermediate representation. A key component of CORBA.

"The Interface Description Language", R. Snodgrass, Computer Science Press 1989.

SIGPLAN Notices 22(11) (Nov 1987) special issue.