On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Sean Kelly <[email protected]> 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. :-) 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?
I'm starting to think their definition must just be "compiles to native code" maybe together with "has static typing". --bb
