What is the difference between ANSI/ISO C++ and C++/CLI?

Question

Created by Microsoft as the foundation of its .NET technology, the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an ECMA standard (ECMA-335) that allows app

Answer 1

I am getting a bit rusty and cannot recall when exactly the word "native" popped up into the common parlance. I believe it was massively used by designers of environments destined to simplify programming running on the top of other ones designed to offer optimal access to system resources with limited focus on the programming style. Which is one may change with the time, as native also may be referred some assembler code invoked from a high level language used to program an embedded system. This is why I avoid using such concepts as operating system as even CLI/CLR despite the common fad may be implemented on Linux (Mono) or on bare silicon with no OS support (.NET Micro).

In such a context the standard C++ follows the native approach and is quite tolerant on which hardware or OS (or no OS) it runs as long as it is possible to provide a compiler and the standard library for that. The standard C++ code may be easily recompiled for any such platform as far a C++ compiler exists for it.

To be referred as C++/CLI the C++ dialect implementation needs CLI/CLR support and of course a CLI platform being present but the code may be ported without recompilation using CIL and use a standard, sophisticated library and utilities. However the initial requirements are higher than in the case of the standard C++ which can play in this case the role of the native environment.