<a href="http://www.cminusminus.org">C--</a> is a portable assembly language, hence a *(VM). It is significant in being a proper subset of the _(C language) that is much easier to generate code for.

<A HREF="http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/c--.html">Simon Peyton Jones' page on it.</A>

<A HREF= "http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/projects/C--/">PacSoft at OGI</A>