Description language may refer to:
- Interface description language aka interface definition language (IDL)
- Regular Language description for XML (RELAX)
- Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
- Page description language (PDL)
- Binary Format Description language - extension of XSIL
- Hardware description language - for circuits
- VHSIC hardware description language - for Field-programmable gate arrays, and logic circuits
- Job Submission Description Language
- Architecture description language
- Specification and Description Language - a specification language
- Character Description Language - for CJK fonts
- Scene description language
Famous quotes containing the words description and/or language:
“I was here first introduced to Joe.... He was a good-looking Indian, twenty-four years old, apparently of unmixed blood, short and stout, with a broad face and reddish complexion, and eyes, methinks, narrower and more turned up at the outer corners than ours, answering to the description of his race. Besides his underclothing, he wore a red flannel shirt, woolen pants, and a black Kossuth hat, the ordinary dress of the lumberman, and, to a considerable extent, of the Penobscot Indian.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.”
—Richard Rorty (b. 1931)