Don wrote:
Did the term "systems programming language" exist before C? I mean, asm isn't a "systems programming language", it's asm! Seems to me that it's a market segment term, which just means "competes with C".
The first I encountered the term was the BLISS programming language. I think it means Basic Language for Implementation of Systems Software.
BLISS predates C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS
