On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:30:02 +1100, Justin Johansson wrote: > Touted often around here is the term "systems language". > > May we please discuss a definition to be agreed upon for the usage this > term (at least in this community) and also have some agreed upon > examples of PLs that might also be members of the "set of systems > languages". Given a general subjective term like this, one would have to > suspect that the D PL is not the only member of this set. > > Cheers > Justin Johansson > > PS. my apologies for posting a lame joke recently; certainly it was not > meant to be disparaging towards the D PL and hopefully it was not taken > this way.
>From my pov, a systems programming language has pointers. That's all.