[nomenclature] systems language

[Justin Johansson]

On 14/10/2010 11:48 PM, Moritz Warning wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:30:02 +1100, 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.
>
>  From my pov, a systems programming language has pointers. That's all.

And therefore candidate languages might include ... and exclude ...?