On 14/10/2010 13:30, 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.
It's those programming languages whose type systems can be used to move
and navigate across water (but can sink if you rock it enough). Compare
to other languages whose type systems merely floats on water, but don't
move anywhere... (although some guarantee they will never sink no matter
how much you rock it!)
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
