interface description language

Summary

interface description language ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (133 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• interface description language's subclass of is recorded as specification language^[2].
• interface description language's has use is recorded as application programming interface^[3].
• interface description language's has use is recorded as abstraction layer^[4].
• interface description language's has use is recorded as language-independent specification^[5].
• interface description language's has use is recorded as RPC^[6].
• interface description language's has part is recorded as data serialization format^[7].
• interface description language's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01555l^[8].
• interface description language's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/idl^[9].
• interface description language's different from is recorded as user interface markup language^[10].
• interface description language's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 177216440^[11].
• interface description language's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C177216440^[12].
• interface description language's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/interface-description-language^[13].
• interface description language's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as computer-science/interface-definition-language^[14].
• interface description language's FOLDOC ID is recorded as Interface+Definition+Language^[15].
• interface description language's FOLDOC ID is recorded as Interface+Description+Language^[16].

Why It Matters

interface description language ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (133 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[17] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[18]