[nomenclature] systems language

[so]

That is too much to comprehend for some people. They think if a language  
is "able" to do something it doesn't matter how many million lines or  
knowledge to do that simple thing, and you can simply put "able to do  
certain stuff" in that languages feature list.

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:08:06 +0300, Norbert Nemec  
<Norbert at nemec-online.de> wrote:

> A language that is adequate for systems programming.
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> This leaves "adequate" and "systems programming" for definition...
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> On 10/14/2010 02:30 PM, Justin Johansson wrote:
>> Touted often around here is the term "systems language".
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers
>> Justin Johansson
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>> 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.
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