Task: Compare Cake to C

TASK-DESCRIPTION

Create documents/17-cake-vs-c.md. Study the Cake language and compare it to C using the criteria in prompts/common/04-c-comparison-criteria.md. Follow the study-note structure defined there exactly, with heading 10 (Evidence) listing the cited sources. Base the study on primary sources where possible: official documentation, the language reference, the specification, the repository. Inspect documents/08-related-work.md for the current classification of Cake (Camp 2: a superset of C — “C23 and beyond” — with modern features that can desugar back to C) and verify or refine that classification in the study. Do not modify documents/08-related-work.md; this task creates only documents/17-cake-vs-c.md.

TASK-OUTPUT

Provide only the complete content of documents/17-cake-vs-c.md. No commentary.

TASK-CONTEXT

This task is one of five concurrent C-comparison studies (C3, Odin, Hare, Val, Cake) that feed the synthesis task prompts/tasks/07-c-comparison-synthesis.md. The comparison baseline is C; the aim is to identify what has been tried before, what worked, and what did not work. Criteria (authoritative): prompts/common/04-c-comparison-criteria.md. Project principles: the kernel test in documents/07-elseon-language.md (no GC, no hidden allocation, no hidden control flow, deterministic memory layout; C-compatible ABI). Existing survey (inspect only): documents/08-related-work.md.

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