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Re:Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to ... by daenney on Saturday October 20, 2012 @07:56AM (#4676872)
This is going to be rather confusing, I actually thought someone accidentally reinvented Carbon, https://developer.apple.com/carbon/.

I realise Apple's Carbon doesn't compile to C but my brain's transderivational search just ignored that fact.

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Re:Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to ... by delinka on Saturday October 20, 2012 @08:19AM (#4676893)
Writing Carbon that calls Carbon. Let's call this act Magnesium because ... fusion.
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Re:Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to ... by fyolnish on Saturday October 20, 2012 @08:46AM (#4676939)
Instead he reinvented something closer to Objective-C.
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Re:Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to ... by mistercow on Saturday October 20, 2012 @10:52AM (#4677193)
Apple's Carbon also isn't a language, but rather an API.
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