Justin Johansson <n...@spam.com> 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.
My understanding of the term:
- Compiles to native code
- Gives direct access to low-level primitives (pointers,
register-size integers, bitwise operations)
- Allows pointer arithmetic
- Does not stand in the way of getting low-level work done
- Has a well defined ABI
- Lets you do manual memory management
Not sure which languages do fit this definition, except of
course C, C++ and D.
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Simen
