"Justin Johansson" <n...@spam.com> wrote in message news:i96t5c$af...@digitalmars.com... > 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.
A language that doesn't suck at general direct hardware access (memory, i/o, etc).
