/pē-dē-el/
[acronym for 'Push Down List']
1. In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack.
2. Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of Zork; (his network address on the ITS machines was at one time pdl@dms).
3. 'Program Design Language'. Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which flowchart forces one to design programs. Management often expects it to be maintained in parallel with the code.
See also flowchart.
4. To design using a program design language.
"I've been pdling so long my eyes won't focus beyond 2 feet."