<a href="http://www.cminusminus.org">C--</a> is a portable _(assembly) *(programming language), hence also a *(VM). It is significant in being a variant of the *(C language) that is much easier to generate code for.  It is not a sub or superset of C, however.

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<li>The C-- _(home page|http://www.cminusminus.org).
<li>_(PacSoft at OGI|http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/projects/C--/).
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