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Alanguage-independent specification (LIS)[1] is aprogramming language specification[citation needed] providing a commoninterface usable for definingsemantics applicable toward arbitrarylanguage 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 includeInterface description language (IDL),Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) andCommon 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 thederivative code pipeline.
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