Searching for an IDL Processor

The Center for Human Genome Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory
is trying to locate/acquire the C source for an Interface Description
Language (IDL) Processor. IDL was developed by David Lamb at Carnegie-
Mellon in 1983 under Mary Shaw and William Wulf. An IDL Processor
incorporates the principles of the IDL into a tool for describing the
data structures that are passed between software modules: It overcomes
many engineering problems when the interface requirements and specifications
are changing. Having personally used an implementation (which cannot
be obtained), I can attest to the fact it is a powerful prototyping tool.


Can anybody help? We need the C source. As an alternative, if anyone
knows where David Lamb is, that would probably lead us to it. (Are you
out there David?)


Respond by phone (505-665-1970) or email(rmp@inducer.lanl.gov).
Thanks.


Rob Pecherer
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Center for Human Genome Studies
Division T-10
ms K710
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
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