Editing C-- (section)

{{Short description|C-like programming language}}
{{refimprove|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox programming language
| name = C--
| logo = C-- logo.svg
|logo caption = Unofficial logo for C-- which closely resembles the [[C++]] logo
| paradigm = [[imperative programming|imperative]]
| year = 1998
| typing = [[Type system|static]], [[Weak typing|weak]]
| designer = [[Simon Peyton Jones]] and [[Norman Ramsey (computer scientist)|Norman Ramsey]]
| influenced_by = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| website = {{URL|www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/}}
}}

'''C--''' (pronounced ''C minus minus'') is a [[C (programming language)|C]]-like [[programming language]], designed to be generated mainly by [[compiler]]s for [[high-level language]]s 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 data|binary]] format.<ref name="april98" /><ref name="gc99" />

There are two main branches:
* C--, the original branch, with the final version 2.0 released in May 2005<ref name="v2" />
* Cmm, the fork actively used as the [[intermediate representation]] (IR) in the [[Glasgow Haskell Compiler]] (GHC)<ref name="cmm-hs" /><ref name="llvm backend" />