C- programming language

C- is a fictional programming language invented as a joke by John Unger Zussman. It appears in a humorous list of "lesser known languages", published in InfoWorld in 1982 and later posted to Usenet. This is the original text pertaining to C-:

    C- ... This language was named for the grade received by  its
 creator  when  he  submitted  it as a class project in a graduate
 programming class.  C- is best described as  a  "Low-Level"  pro-
 gramming language.  In fact, the language generally requires more
 C- statements than machine-code statements  to  execute  a  given
 task.  In this respect, it is very similar to COBOL.
 

It is a spoof of the C programming language.

The other languages in this list are SIMPLE, SLOBOL, VALGOL, LAIDBACK, SARTRE, FIFTH, LITHP and DOGO.

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See also: C- programming language, C programming language, DOGO programming language, FIFTH programming language, InfoWorld, LAIDBACK programming language, LITHP programming language, Programming language, SIMPLE programming language, SLOBOL programming language