• Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> Nov 11 2009
• Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> Nov 11 2009

Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> writes:

Walter Bright Wrote:

 Bill Baxter wrote:
 It's harder to find those when you're skimming through trying to get
 the highlights with a 5 minute limit.  :-) What are some things is it
 missing?


 Off the top of my head, some major ones:
 
 . inline assembler
 . interface to C


Their definition of "systems programming language" is clearly different from
mine then.  Shouldn't this classify Java as a systems language as well?

Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> writes:

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Sean Kelly <sean invisibleduck.org> wrote:
 Walter Bright Wrote:

 Bill Baxter wrote:
 It's harder to find those when you're skimming through trying to get
 the highlights with a 5 minute limit. =A0:-) What are some things is i=






 missing?


 Off the top of my head, some major ones:

 . inline assembler
 . interface to C


 Their definition of "systems programming language" is clearly different f=


l?

I'm starting to think their definition must just be "compiles to
native code" maybe together with "has static typing".

--bb