[nomenclature] systems language

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 29 20:14:18 PDT 2010


== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> div0 wrote:
> > There's nothing special about a systems language; it's just they have
> > explicit facilities that make certain low level functionality easier to
> > implement. You could implement an OS in BASIC using PEEK/POKE if you mad
> > enough.
> I suppose it's like the difference between porn and art. It's impossible to
> write a bureaucratic rule to distinguish them, but it's easy to tell the
> difference just by looking at the two. "I know it when I see it!"

Also known as the Elephant test: "is hard to describe, but instantly recognisable
when spotted".


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