Cdl

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CDL
       
          1. Computer Definition [Design?] Language.  A hardware
          description language.  "Computer Organisation and
          Microprogramming", Yaohan Chu, P-H 1970.
       


          2. Command Definition Language.  Portion of ICES used to
          implement commands.  Sammet 1969, p.618-620.
       
          3. Compiler Description Language.  C.H.A. Koster, 1969.
          Intended for implementation of the rules of an affix grammar
          by recursive procedures.  A procedure may be a set of
          tree-structured alternatives, each alternative is executed
          until one successfully exits.  Used in a portable COBOL-74
          compiler from MPB, mprolog system from SzKI, and the Mephisto
          chess computer.  "CDL: A Compiler Implementation Language", in
          Methods of Algorithmic Language Implementation, C.H.A. Koster,
          LNCS 47, Springer 1977, pp.341-351.  "Using the CDL Compiler
          Compiler", C.H.A. Koster, 1974.  Versions: CDL2, CDLM used at
          Manchester.
       
          4. Common Design Language.  "Common Design Language", IBM,
          Software Engineering Inst, Sept 1983.
       
          5. Control Definition Language.  Ideas which contributed to
          Smalltalk.
       
          ["Control Structures for Programming Languges", David
          A. Fisher, PhD Thesis, CMU 1970].