Could someone tell me what the CLI in C++/CLI means. Is C++/CLI a 
Microsoft-only thing?
thanks. 

Kurt Krueckeberg wrote:

> Could someone tell me what the CLI in C++/CLI means. Is C++/CLI a
> Microsoft-only thing?
> thanks.

Yes, Microsoft invented & patented the Command Line Interface in 1998.
In fact Microsoft invented all modern computing paradigms including NUMA,
quantum computing & the control key at the bottom left of your keyboard :-)

gtoomey

Kurt Krueckeberg wrote:

> Could someone tell me what the CLI in C++/CLI means.


Common Language Infrastructure.


http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm

http://www23.brinkster.com/noicys/cppcli.htm




> Is C++/CLI a 
> Microsoft-only thing?
> thanks. 


It is backed by Microsoft, but it is an open standard.




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I demand that on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:47:02 +1000, Gregory Toomey may or
may not have written:

> Kurt Krueckeberg wrote:
> 
>> Could someone tell me what the CLI in C++/CLI means. Is C++/CLI a
>> Microsoft-only thing?
>> thanks.
> 
> Yes, Microsoft invented & patented the Command Line Interface in 1998.

Eh? So that old CP/M machine I used all those years ago in High School was
just a figment of my imagination? ;)

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"jafar" <jafar@fatcat.delicats.net> wrote in message
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> I demand that on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:47:02 +1000, Gregory Toomey may or
> may not have written:
>
> > Kurt Krueckeberg wrote:
> >
> >> Could someone tell me what the CLI in C++/CLI means. Is C++/CLI a
> >> Microsoft-only thing?
> >> thanks.
> >
> > Yes, Microsoft invented & patented the Command Line Interface in 1998.
>
> Eh? So that old CP/M machine I used all those years ago in High School was
> just a figment of my imagination? ;)

I'm pretty sure Gregory wrote that "tongue in cheek".

-Mike

I demand that on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:19:12 +0000, Mike Wahler may or may
not have written:

> 
> "jafar" <jafar@fatcat.delicats.net> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.11.11.10.06.18.316262@fatcat.delicats.net...
>> I demand that on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:47:02 +1000, Gregory Toomey may or
>> may not have written:
>>
>> > Kurt Krueckeberg wrote:
>> >
>> >> Could someone tell me what the CLI in C++/CLI means. Is C++/CLI a
>> >> Microsoft-only thing?
>> >> thanks.
>> >
>> > Yes, Microsoft invented & patented the Command Line Interface in 1998.
>>
>> Eh? So that old CP/M machine I used all those years ago in High School was
>> just a figment of my imagination? ;)
> 
> I'm pretty sure Gregory wrote that "tongue in cheek".

I know. Didn't you see my winky? ;)

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