Re:CIL: C Intermediate Language
by fluoridation on Friday November 01, 2024 @09:31AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure
2012 is just the latest version. It was first published in 2001, and started in 2000. They're so close together that it's difficult to say if one would have been able to find the other.
(I first learned about CIL in https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/Papers/cil_cc02.pdf)
I guess ECMA should have done better research.