MDL (programming language): Difference between revisions

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| discontinued = Yes

| platform = [[PDP-10]], [[VAX]], [[Apollo/Domain]]

| operating system = [[Incompatible Timesharing System|ITS]], [[TOPS-20#TENEX (operating system)|TENEX]], [[TOPS-20]], [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], [[Domain/OS#AEGIS|AEGIS]]

| license = [[Open-source license|Open-source]]

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'''MDL''' ('''More Datatypes than Lisp'''<ref name="Licklider1988" >

{{cite web |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a197342.pdf |title=Graphical Programming and Monitoring RADC-TR-88-7 |last=Licklider |first=J.C.R |date=January 1988 |website= |publisher=Rome Air Development Center |access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref>{{rp|3}} or '''MIT Design Language'''{{citation needed|date=May 2019}}) is a [[programming language]], a descendant of the language [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]. Its initial purpose was to provide high level language support for the Dynamic Modeling Group at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]'s (MIT) [[Project MAC]].<ref name="DornbrookBlank" >

{{cite web |url=http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-292.pdf |title=MDL Programming Primer MIT-LCS-TR-292 |last=Dornbrook |first=Michael | last2=Blank | first2=Marc |date=1980 |website= |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science |access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref> It was initially developed in 1971 on a [[PDP-10]] computer on a [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]] named [[Incompatible Timesharing System]] (ITS). It later ran on [[TOPS-20#TENEX (operating system)|TENEX]], [[TOPS-20]],<ref name="GalleyPfister1979" >

{{cite web |url=http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/mdl/manuals/MDL_Programming_Language.pdf |title=The MDL Programming Language |last=Galley |first=Stu W. |last2=Pfister |first2=Greg |date=1979 |website= |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science |access-date=2018-12-18}}</ref><ref>

{{cite web |url=http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/mdl/manuals/MDL_Programming_Environment.pdf |title=The MDL Programming Environment |last=Lebling |first=P. David |date=May 1980 |website= |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science |access-date=2018-12-18}}</ref>, [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]]<ref name="Licklider1988" />{{rp|6}}, and [[Domain/OS#AEGIS|AEGIS]]<ref name="Lim1982">