In article <mailman.10852.1402154644.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On 07 Jun 2014 04:57:19 GMT, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> declaimed the following: > > > > >Swift is intended as a new generation *systems language*. The old > >generation of systems languages are things like C, Objective-C, C#, C++, > >Java, Pascal, Algol, and so forth. The new generation are intended to > >fulfil the same niches, but to have syntax and usability closer to that > >of scripting languages. Languages like Go, Rust, Ceylon, and now Swift. > > > Pascal as a systems language? We must have major differences what > constitutes a systems language then... The original MacOS was written in Pascal (both applications and kernel). Being able to touch memory locations or registers requires no more than a few short glue routines written in assembler. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
