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unusual facts about specification language



Wide-spectrum language

A wide-spectrum language (WSL) is a programming language designed to be simultaneously a low-level and a high-level language—possibly a non-executable specification language.


see also

MINC

MINC ("MINC is not C") is a data specification language written in the mid-1980s by a Princeton University graduate student named Lars Graf.

ODL

Object Definition Language, specification language defining the interface to object types conforming to the ODMG Object Model

Pforth

PForth started out as HFORTH, which was used in connection with the Hierarchical Music Specification Language, a music experimentation language developed by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom.

Praspel

Praspel (PHP Realistic Annotation and Specification Language) is a formal specification language for PHP.

Rhythmicon

More recently, composer Nick Didkovsky designed and programmed a virtual Rhythmicon using Java Music Specification Language and JSyn.

UML

Unified Modeling Language, an object modeling and specification language used in software engineering

Web Services Description Language

It was built by combining two service description languages: NASSL (Network Application Service Specification Language) from IBM and SDL (Service Description Language) from Microsoft.