Command Line Interface

[[explain]] [RS]: A prompt at which you can enter a command, terminated by <Return>. Example: an interactive [tclsh].

[LV] When ''I'' refer to CLI, I mean a description of the arguments one types after a command name to invoke behavior.

For example, the tclsh '''Command Line Interface''' is:

 tclsh ?fileName ?arg??

where one can optionally provide the '''fileName''' of a [Tcl] script, followed by one or more arguments for that script.

[Microsoft] generally uses '''CLI''' to mean "Common Language Interface",
part of the [.NET] amalgam [[explain]] [[also distinguish from [CLR].]].

[ECMA] uses '''CLI''' (also in the context of [.NET]) for '''Common Language Infrastructure''' [http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/MEMENTO/TC39.HTM].
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