"This first part of this article discusses creating language-independent components, that is, components that can be consumed by apps that are written in any language. You can also create a single component or app from source code written in multiple languages; see Cross-Language Interoperability in the second part of this article."

From "Language independence and language-independent components" in MSIL, originally published in 2001.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/language-i...