Language-independent specification
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A language-independent specification (LIS)[1] is a programming language specification[citation needed] providing a common interface usable for defining semantics applicable toward arbitrary language bindings.
LIS's are language-agnostic; they mitigate the risk that a certain language binding might reduce compatibility with other languages. An ideal LIS allows the language bindings to take advantage of features of a programming language uncompromisingly.
Examples of LIS include Interface description language (IDL), Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) and Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
Recursive transcompiling can be used to distribute a language independent specification across many different technologies, with each technology potentially keeping an authoritative description of a different part of the specification. Recursive transcompiling provides the general methodology for distributing this authoritative information through the rest of the derivative code pipeline.
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[edit]- ↑ "Information technology - Open Systems Interconnection (03) abstract data manipulation - Application Program Interface (API) (Language independent)" (PDF). cdn.standards.iteh.ai. Retrieved December 29, 2025.
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