[nomenclature] systems language
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Oct 29 18:13:17 PDT 2010
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!"
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