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:
“Why does philosophy use concepts and why does faith use symbols if both try to express the same ultimate? The answer, of course, is that the relation to the ultimate is not the same in each case. The philosophical relation is in principle a detached description of the basic structure in which the ultimate manifests itself. The relation of faith is in principle an involved expression of concern about the meaning of the ultimate for the faithful.”
—Paul Tillich (1886–1965)
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—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)