Talk:System programming language

This page is largely redundant with Ousterhout's dichotomy. One of these should be assimilated into the other. --FOo 03:13, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

The concept of "system programming language" was around long before Ousterhout - I remember discussing the concept in 1981, and there was a minor industry in system programming languages before C came to dominate. "Ousterhout's dichotomy" could be redirected to reinvention of the wheel :-), or just cut down to say that he made the observation and to explain his viewpoint, while this article focuses just on the history and characteristics of system programming languages. Stan 12:54, 4 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a para explaining the usage of "system programming language" as "a language for system programming" in the sense of system programming. In fact, I feel sure this is the dominant usage, and that the primary definition on this page is wrong. Mhkay 09:37, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The description of scripting languages here is very dubious. They have little or no support for complex data structures? They typically have a lot more support than C, which doesn't even have a native string class. Perl, Ruby, and Python, are full of data-structure support out of the box that you don't have in C. Nor are scripting languages necessarily interpreted. Some are byte-compiled to run on a virtual machine. --OinkOink 05:27, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]