Computer Science
- Interface description language, any computer language used to describe a software component's interface
- IDL specification language, the original IDL created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queen's University, Canada
- OMG IDL, an IDL standardized by Object Management Group and implemented in the Common Object Request Broker Architecture and selected by the W3C for exposing the DOM of XML, HTML, CSS, and SVG documents
- Microsoft Interface Definition Language, an extension of OMG IDL for supporting Microsoft's DCOM services
- IDL (programming language) (Interactive Data Language), a data analysis language popular for science applications
- ICAD Design Language, a knowledge-based engineering language used with the software ICAD
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