[nomenclature] systems language

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Justin Johansson" <no at spam.com> wrote in message 
news:i96t5c$af5$1 at 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).