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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [[Wikipedia:MDL (programming language)|Wikipedia article]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [[Wikipedia:MDL (programming language)|Wikipedia article]]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/what-is-zil-anyway.html What is ZIL anyway?] (mentions MDL)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/what-is-zil-anyway.html What is ZIL anyway?] (mentions MDL)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;* [https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_mitlcstrMI_10492664 Michael Dornbrook and Marc Blank: The MDL Programming Language Primer (1981)]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;* [https://archive.org/details/ADA070930 Greg Pfister and Stuart W Galley: The MDL Programming Language (1971)]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;* [https://archive.org/details/LCSTR294Lebling/page/n7 P. David Lebling:&amp;#160; The MDL Programming Environment (1980)]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;** [https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_mitlcstrMIironmentMay80_12444800 The same document, a different scan]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;* [https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA050191/page/n1 Joel M. Berez: A Dynamic Debugging System for MDL (1978)]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;* [https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA197342 &amp;quot;Graphical Programming and Monitoring&amp;quot;, a graphical environment written in MDL (1988)]&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;* [http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archiveXprogrammingXmdl.html MDL in the Interactive Fiction Archive]: contains some documents, covered previously, as well as the Confusion interpreter (2009)&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Dan Tobias at 16:41, 18 April 2019</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''MDL''' (originally Muddle) is a [[LISP]]-like programming language introduced at MIT. It is best known for its use in [[Interactive Fiction]] as the original development language of Zork; later Infocom games used a language called [[ZIL]] that had a syntax based on MDL, though it didn't have the functional-language capabilities of its parent language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''MDL''' (originally Muddle&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;; MIT Design Language&lt;/ins&gt;) is a [[LISP]]-like programming language introduced at MIT. It is best known for its use in [[Interactive Fiction]] as the original development language of Zork; later Infocom games used a language called [[ZIL]] that had a syntax based on MDL, though it didn't have the functional-language capabilities of its parent language.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Links ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Links ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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'''MDL''' (originally Muddle) is a [[LISP]]-like programming language introduced at MIT. It is best known for its use in [[Interactive Fiction]] as the original development language of Zork; later Infocom games used a language called [[ZIL]] that had a syntax based on MDL, though it didn't have the functional-language capabilities of its parent language.&lt;br /&gt;
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