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C3 is a programming language project, inspired by C, Elixir and
Common Lisp. It could be described as C with Elixir macros, pattern
matching, and a semantic object system. The idea is to plug macros and
-pattern matching into C89 and use them to implement the graph database.
+pattern matching into C99 and use them to implement the graph database.
The garbage collector is optional, like in C.