While C may be not much from assembly and C++ a mess. C with a strapped
on GC can have full power, portability which just leaves the programmer
to please.
Some of spotted this and instead of compiling directly, they output C
code. Some examples of this are:
Bitc. Combines the flexibility, rich, safe of modern day functional
languages with power of C. http://www.bitc-lang.org/
Vala. A Modern C# looking language that compiles to C with the resulting
code using the GObject library. http://live.gnome.org/Vala
And 2 more recent ones:
OOC. I quite like how this one myself personally. http://ooc-lang.org/about
Zimbu. Quote from the zimbu page: "It has to run on most systems,
anything with a C compiler, so D is out" http://www.zimbu.org/
