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2006/5/15

Acronyms

Filed under: Software — Erwin @ 1:19 pm

Kalle wrote in a comment:

Btw, funny that your thing claims CLI is “Common Language Interpreter”. It’s also Command Line Interface, and that’s an official acronym IIRC.

Unfortunately there’s no such thing as an official acronym. For instance here’s a few picked from online dictionaries:

  • Command Line Interface
  • Call-Level Interface (database lingo)
  • Class Library
  • Clear Interrupt (assembly)
  • Common Language Interpreter

And then some that turn up from a bit of online searching:

As for my thing, that’s the Acronym Replacer that I picked up from Huddled Masses and CLI must have been on its initial list, I wouldn’t have chosen that definition myself. :)

Edited: Fixed stupid typo.

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