cli - Genuinely thought "CLI" meant Command Line Interface. Only just realised it means Common Language Infastructur - devRant

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theNox

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What? I thought It was Command Line Interface too
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mojaveazure

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CLI can stand for either. The term "command-line interface" has been around since physical terminals were a thing while"Common Language infrastructure" came to be around 2000.
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itsdaniel0

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@mojaveazure I'm not a fool!
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Azer0s

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And than there is CIL, which is Common Intermediate Language...
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ac1235

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it's both
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Sekhat

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@AndSoWeCode not civil servants though, they have us beat by a factor of 10. Everything is an acronym.
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LetsCodeAlready

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It means both, depending on context.
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Cyanide

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@mojaveazure I started to question my life until I saw your comment.
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YousifMansour

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An acronym can mean anything depending on the context in which it is defined.

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