CLS and the CLI

Nope. Nothing to do with crime scenes or forensics.

Those of you of a certain age (commonly known as getting on a bit) and of a sufficiently nerdy inclination, might recognise CLI as an acronym for Command Line Interface and CLS as the mnemonic command entered into the CLI, at the command prompt, to CLear Screen.

Okay. Nostalgia time over. We've moved on from there and now we have multi-touch screens, mouse gestures and voice recognition to control our computing devices.

But one thing hasn't...