[nomenclature] systems language

[Walter Bright]

Don wrote:
> Did the term "systems programming language" exist before C? I mean, asm 
> isn't a "systems programming language", it's asm!
> Seems to me that it's a market segment term, which just means "competes 
> with C".

The first I encountered the term was the BLISS programming language. I think it 
means Basic Language for Implementation of Systems Software.

BLISS predates C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS