[nomenclature] systems language

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sat Oct 16 07:03:20 PDT 2010


On 10/16/10 6:39 CDT, div0 wrote:
> On 14/10/2010 13:30, Justin Johansson 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".
>> 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.
>
> Something not mentioned so far:
>
> The language must be self hostable;
> i.e. you need to be able to write it's runtime in the language itself.

Solid one!

Andrei


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