[nomenclature] systems language

[Juanjo Alvarez]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:30:02 +1100, Justin Johansson <no at 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".

A system language allows you to:.

+ Use pointers
+ Do manual memory management 
+ Embed assembler
+ Call the operating system syscalls