Does CLI mean anything other than “command line interface”?

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?

Answer 1

in .NET it's the Common Language Infrastructure.

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

Answer 2

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)

Answer 3

Common Language Infrastructure?

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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

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