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IDLs are used in situations where the software on either side may not share common "call semantics", referring to the way the computer language "talks" to the routines. For instance, C and Pascal have different ways of calling routines, and in general cannot call code written in the other language. IDLs are a subset of both, a general language to which both can conform to enable language-independent code. IDLs are most commonly found in software intended to allow routines to be called on other machines, known as Remote Procedure Call . In these cases the call semantics may vary not only between languages, but also due to the architecture of the machines themselves. An IDL is part of Sun 's ONC RPC , The Open Group 's Distributed Computing Environment , Microsoft 's COM , IBM 's System Object Model , Mozilla 's XPCOM (also known as ''XPIDL''), the Object Management Group 's CORBA , and SOAP for Web Service s. EXTERNAL LINKS SEE ALSO
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