** Summary **

A '''C'''ommand '''L'''ine '''I'''nterface is a [user interface] composed of a
prompt at which users may enter a command, terminated by <Return>

It can also refer to the syntax the arguments and options that such commands accept.  For example, the tclsh '''Command Line Interface''' is: tclsh ?fileName ?arg??


** Disambiguation **

[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].

'''SQL/CLI''' is the acronym for the standard [SQL] "Call-Level Interface", the
best known implementation of which is [ODBC].


** Tcl CLI's **

   [tclsh]:   


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