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| **MDL** (pronounced //"muddle"//; a backronym for //Model Development Language//) is a Lisp-descended programming language developed at MIT in the 1970s. It was used to develop the initial version of the game //Zork//. | **MDL** (pronounced //"muddle"//; a backronym for //Model Development Language//) is a Lisp-descended programming language developed at MIT in the 1970s. It was used to develop the initial version of the game [[tutorials:zork|Zork]]. |
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| On twenex.org, run the MDL interpreter with the command ''MDL105'': | On twenex.org, run the MDL interpreter with the command ''MDL105'': |
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| Load source files into the MDL interpreter with the function ''FLOAD'': | Load source files into the MDL interpreter with the function ''FLOAD'': |
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| ====== References ====== | |
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| * Unordered List Item | |
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| <FLOAD "DEV:<DIR>FILE"> | <FLOAD "DEV:<DIR>FILE"> |
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| (You can omit the ''DEV:<DIR>'' portion of the file specification if you set the ''MDL:'' logical name to the device and directory where your MDL source files are stored.) | (You can omit the ''DEV:<DIR>'' portion of the file specification if you set the ''MDL:'' logical name to the device and directory where your MDL source files are stored.) |
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| | ====== References ====== |
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| | * M. Dornbrook, M. Blank. [[http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-292.pdf|The MDL Programming Language Primer]]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science, 1980. Retrieved 2022-03-12. |
| | * S. Galley, G. Pfister. [[http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/mdl/manuals/MDL_Programming_Language.pdf|The MDL Programming Language]]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science, 1979. Retrieved 2022-03-12. |
| | * P.D. Lebling. [[http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/programming/mdl/manuals/MDL_Programming_Environment.pdf|The MDL Programming Environment]]. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Computer Science, 1980. Retrieved 2022-03-12. |
| | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)|MDL (programming language)]]. Wikipedia. Retrieved 2022-03-12. |
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