Also known as C minus minus
C-- (conventionally written using hyphen-minuses but pronounced C minus minus) is a C-like programming language, designed to be generated mainly by compilers for high-level languages rather than written by human programmers. It was created by functional programming researchers Simon Peyton Jones and Norman Ramsey. Unlike many other intermediate languages, it is represented in plain ASCII text, not bytecode or another binary format.
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- C--
- Programming language.logo
- C-- logo.svg
- Programming language.logo caption
- Unofficial logo for C-- which closely resembles the C++ logo
- Programming language.paradigm
- imperative
- Programming language.year
- 1998
- Programming language.typing
- static, weak
- Programming language.designer
- Simon Peyton Jones and Norman Ramsey
- Programming language.influenced_by
- C
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--
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- inception
- 1997-00-00
- software version identifier
- 2.0
- file extension
- c--
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- Design
- Type system
- Example code
- Implementations
- Haskell
- Processing systems
- See also
- References
- External links
C-- (conventionally written using hyphen-minuses but pronounced C minus minus) is a C-like programming language, designed to be generated mainly by compilers for high-level languages rather than written by human programmers. It was created by functional programming researchers Simon Peyton Jones and Norman Ramsey. Unlike many other intermediate languages, it is represented in plain ASCII text, not bytecode or another binary format.
There are two main branches: C--, the original branch, with the final version 2.0 released in May 2005 Cmm, the fork actively used as the intermediate representation (IR) in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)