OSCON 2012 notes

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 22.07.2012 01:13, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:41:05 +0200
> Paulo Pinto<pjmlp at progtools.org>  wrote:
>>
>> Regarding systems programming, Go could actually play in the same
>> league as D
> [...]
>> The trick with Oberon, which Go also uses, is to have a special module
>> reckognised by the compiler with primitives to do the low tricks C
>> offers. Additionaly any function/method without body can be
>> implemented in Assembly. This is nothing new, Modula-2 already worked
>> like this.
>>
>
> If a language has to resort to such "outside-of-the-language" tricks
> like that to do system software, then it's just simply not a systems
> language.

How is this different from ANSI/ISO C, which is considered a systems 
programming language?

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Paulo