[nomenclature] systems language

[Paulo Pinto]

Would that make Smalltalk, Lisp, Oberon, Modula-3, Component Pascal, Ada,
Mac Pascal system programming languages?

All of them were used to write operating systems, in some of them the 
operating system and
language are the same, kind of.

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paulo

"div0" <div0 at sourceforge.net> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>
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