Language with pointers does not mean a thing for systems programming, there
are quite a few VM languages with pointers.
Even BASIC can be a systems programing language by that metric (PEEK/POKE).
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Paulo
"SomeDude" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
On Friday, 20 April 2012 at 06:43:51 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Well, C# can also be real systems programming language, see
Singularity.
And native code compilers are also available (Bartok, Mono AOT,
NGEN).
D names itself a system programming language, but I am yet to
see any OS
coded on it. Without system programming examples, it becomes
just another
application level language.
I once asked on reddit what "system programming language" meant,
and the 3 answers I received were: a language that gives full
access to memory", i.e basically a language with pointers. Not
one mentioned being suitable for programming operating systems.
Yet, if you forget the standard library, disable the GC, and use
a subset of the language (no exceptions for instance), I suppose
it's possible to write low level code with it.
