== Quote from Walter Bright ([email protected])'s article > div0 wrote: > > There's nothing special about a systems language; it's just they have > > explicit facilities that make certain low level functionality easier to > > implement. You could implement an OS in BASIC using PEEK/POKE if you mad > > enough. > I suppose it's like the difference between porn and art. It's impossible to > write a bureaucratic rule to distinguish them, but it's easy to tell the > difference just by looking at the two. "I know it when I see it!"
Also known as the Elephant test: "is hard to describe, but instantly recognisable when spotted".
