language: IDL

`Language:`	Candle, IDL (Interface Description Language)
`Package:`	Scorpion System
`Version:`	6.0
`Parts:`	software development environment for developing software development environments, documentation
`Author:`	University of Arizona
`Location:`	ftp://cs.arizona.edu/scorpion/*
`Description:`	20 tools that can be used to construct specialized programming environments. The Scorpion Project was started by Prof. Richard Snodgrass as an outgrowth of the SoftLab Project (which pro- duced the IDL Toolkit) that he started when he was at the University of North Carolina. The Scorpion Project is directed by him at the University of Arizona and by Karen Shannon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
`Reference:`	"The Interface Description Language: Definition and Use," by Richard Snodgrass, Computer Science Press, 1989, ISBN 0-7167-8198-0
`Ports:`	Sun-3, Sun-4, Vax, Decstation, Iris, Sequent, HP9000
`Discussion:`	info-scorpion-request@cs.arizona.edu
`Contact:`	scorpion-project@cs.arizona.edu
`Updated:`	November 4 1993

`Language:`	IDL (Project DOE's Interface Definition Language)
`Package:`	SunSoft OMG IDL CFE
`Version:`	1.2
`Parts:`	compiler front end, documentation
`Author:`	SunSoft Inc.
`Location:`	ftp://omg.org/pub/OMG_IDL_CFE_1.2/*
`Description:`	OMG's (Object Management Group) CORBA 1.1 (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) specification provides the standard interface definition between OMG-compliant objects. IDL (Interface Definition Language) is the base mechanism for object interaction. The SunSoft OMG IDL CFE (Compiler Front End) provides a complete framework for building CORBA 1.1-compliant preprocessors for OMG IDL. To use SunSoft OMG IDL CFE, you must write a back-end; full instructions are included. A complete compiler of IDL would translate IDL into client side and server side routines for remote communication in the same manner as the currrent Sun RPCL compiler. The additional degree of freedom that the IDL compiler front end provides is that it allows integration of new back ends which can translate IDL to various programming languages. Several companies including Sunsoft are building back ends to the CFE which translate IDL into target languages, e.g. Pascal or C++, in the context of planned CORBA-compliant products.
`Requires:`	C++ 2.1 conformant C++ compiler
`Contact:`	idl-cfe@sun.com
`Updated:`	May 4 1993

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