Question

According to Wikipedia, on the Comparison of programming languages page, it says that F# uses CLI. Does that mean that F# is designed for the purpose of making command-line applications and not graphical applications, or is there another meaning of CLI?

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in .NET it's the Common Language Infrastructure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure

OTHER TIPS

The Wikipedia lists several meanings of CLI:

  • Command line interface (computer tech interaction)
  • Command line interpreter (command line shell)
  • Call Level Interface (an SQL database management API)
  • Common Language Infrastructure (a Microsoft .NET Framework specification)
  • CLI (x86 instruction)

Common Language Infrastructure/Interpreter. It's talking about Bytecode.

Customer Loyalty Initiative - several companies use this to index themselves against their peers for improving/encouraging repeat business.

More items listedon Acronym Finder: http://www.acronymfinder.com/CLI.html

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