What is CLR? Let Bill Gates tell you...

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What is CLR? Let Bill Gates tell you...

chuacw

Sat, 3 Apr 2004 @ 7:44 AM

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Just what does CLR mean?

Let Bill Gates tell you that it's not “Common Language Runtime”, it is “Compact Language Runtime”.

Was that a goof? I dunno.

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