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:
“Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built. Nor let us look down on the standpoint of the theory as make-believe; for we can never do better than occupy the standpoint of some theory or other, the best we can muster at the time.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)