Common_Language_Runtime Common_Language_Runtime

Common Language Runtime - Definition and Overview
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In computing, Common Language Runtime (CLR) is a runtime environment enabling the exact same code called Common Intermediate Language to run on various computers such as Windows PCs, Unix machines and Macintoshes.

Microsoft's .NET implementation of the standardized Common Language Infrastructure is a CLR. It is a generalized multi-language execution engine (a virtual machine) on which code runs. There are currently more than 40 languages (as of 2005) supported. The Common Language Specification (CLS) describes a subset of the CLR, which language compilers should support to promote interoperability between languages.

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