[bitc-dev] CLI/CLR/MSIL terminology (was: Reviewing the state of BitC)

[Eric Northup]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> [...]I want to bring up the compiler on either MSIL/CLR or JVM or 
> both. [...]
Suggestion for terminology clarification: I think the thing you want 
BitC to be targeting is the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure), which 
is described by an ECMA spec.  MSIL is the old name for CIL (the IL, not 
a misspelling of CLI).  The CLR is Microsoft's implementation of the 
CLI; Mono is also a CLI implementation.

-Eric