The ''Common Language Infrastructure'', or CLI, is the definition of an environment "in which applications written in multiple high-level languages may be executed in different system environments without the need to rewrite the application to take into consideration the unique characteristics of those environments."

The ECMA Standard (ECMA-335) can be downloaded from http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/ecma-335.htm

This is the basis of MicrosoftDotNet, the MonoProject, and related software.

See also SharedSourceCli
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