C-- - Programming language

C-- is a programming language created in 1997 by Simon Peyton Jones.

#436on PLDB

27Years Old

C-- (pronounced cee minus minus) is a C-like programming language. Its creators, functional programming researchers Simon Peyton Jones and Norman Ramsey, designed it to be generated mainly by compilers for very high-level languages rather than written by human programmers. Unlike many other intermediate languages, its representation is plain ASCII text, not bytecode or another binary format.. Read more on Wikipedia...

C-- website
C-- Wikipedia page
C-- first developed in Tufts University
C-- on HOPL
See also: (6 related languages)C, ASCII, Assembly language, Modula-3, BCPL, LLVM IR

Example from hello-world:

target byteorder little;
import puts;
export main;

section "data"{
    s:bits8[] "Hello World\0";
}

foreign "C" main(){
    foreign "C" puts("address"s);
    foreign "C" return(0);
}