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C—- was the joking name for the subset of C we had to implement for my Compilers course in college (1990s, UCSC). I’ve assumed that other courses at other colleges did this, too.

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Yeah same. There was a basic prerequisite that everyone know the basics of C, but there was no expectation of assembly knowledge. So we'd write a compiler to compile the code down to reduced form of C that basically mimics assembly, and then use gcc to compile that.

my compiler course called it mini-C

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