[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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