[nomenclature] systems language

[SK]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
> You just ruled out C as a systems language.
>

No, C is a systems language and fits my definition.

1) C need not overlay software written in another language
2) C allows expression of essential machine independent concepts

How did inline assembly become a requirement?  For machine dependent
code, I can just link C with assembly.

But it's still easy to nitpick against C.  For example, ANSI C cannot
express the family of atomic operations, which one could argue are
essential machine independent concepts.