I think that would be too broad. You can write an operating system in Python if you wanted to. http://unununium.org/
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Paulo Pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > I would consider a systems programming language any language that you > can use to build operating systems, even if a little help of assembly > language is > required. > > > "Norbert Nemec" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > >A language that is adequate for systems programming. > > > > This leaves "adequate" and "systems programming" for definition... > > > > > > > > > > On 10/14/2010 02:30 PM, Justin Johansson wrote: > >> Touted often around here is the term "systems language". > >> > >> May we please discuss a definition to be agreed upon > >> for the usage this term (at least in this community) and > >> also have some agreed upon examples of PLs that might also > >> be members of the "set of systems languages". > >> Given a general subjective term like this, one would have > >> to suspect that the D PL is not the only member of this set. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Justin Johansson > >> > >> PS. my apologies for posting a lame joke recently; > >> certainly it was not meant to be disparaging towards > >> the D PL and hopefully it was not taken this way. > > > > >
