From: jimrtex@pipeline.com 
  
 On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:20:12 -0700, Russ Allbery  
 wrote: 
  
 >Jim Riley  writes: 
 > 
 >> How is "CLI" meaningful?  It's an abbreviation.  Why would a longer name 
 >> make it harder to find the group?  Wouldn't it also make it easier for 
 >> people to avoid the group?  If you had looked for such a group a month 
 >> ago, and next month it pops up among the new groups in your newsreader, 
 >> isn't common-language-infra more likely to attract your attention than 
 >> cli. 
 > 
 >So, do you think that comp.lang.common-business-oriented-language is 
 >clear? 
  
 Is that name even used?  Looking at the standards definition pages 
 they refer to a "Programming Language COBOL".  A web search on "cobol" 
 doesn't find anything not related to the computer language. 
  
 >Do you know what's discussed in that group?  Would you be able to 
 >find it if you wished to discuss that topic?  Would you locate it with a 
 >keyword search if you had no idea to look in comp.lang.* for such things? 
  
 A web search on cli found: 
  
 CLI library (Apache Software Foundation) 
 CLI   Caller Line Identity 
  
 Both of which could be subject to standards discussion in the comp.* 
 hierarchy, and the following unrelated topics. 
  
 CCLI SongSelect and Lyric Service interfaces 
 ComputerLab International 
 Computational Logic, INC 
 Cl€ - Na Gaidheil €ra (charity representing new Scots Gaelic speakers) 
 Cyberspace Law Institute 
 CLI Group (an engineering group) 
 CLI Magazine: The product magazine for clinical biologists 
  
 A search of ISO's site (www.iso.org) on "CLI" returns SQL/CLI 
 (Call-Level Interface), ISO/IEC 9075-3:1999. 
  
 A search on "Common Language" finds ISO/IEC 23271:2003. 
  
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 Jim Riley 
  
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