[nomenclature] systems language

[Paulo Pinto]

Maybe you should improve your english skills. I was being sarcastic.

Next time, please read my email until the end, before hitting the reply 
button.

One of the Juanjo's requirements for a languange to be considered
a systems programming language, is for it to include support for
inline assembler.

I was just making a point that C fails his definition, because the
inline assembler you find in most compilers is a vendor extension
to the standard.

No one in his perfect mind would say that C is not a systems
programming language, but it fails the Juanjo's checkpoint list,
hence my reply.

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Paulo

"SK" <sk at metrokings.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.628.1287155971.858.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> 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.