MDL (programming language)
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MDL (originally Muddle; MIT Design Language) 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.
Links
- Wikipedia article
- What is ZIL anyway? (mentions MDL)
- Michael Dornbrook and Marc Blank: The MDL Programming Language Primer (1981)
- Greg Pfister and Stuart W Galley: The MDL Programming Language (1971)
- P. David Lebling: The MDL Programming Environment (1980)
- Joel M. Berez: A Dynamic Debugging System for MDL (1978)
- "Graphical Programming and Monitoring", a graphical environment written in MDL (1988)
- MDL in the Interactive Fiction Archive: contains some documents, covered previously, as well as the Confusion interpreter (2009)
