System programming language

A system programming language is a programming language used for system programming; such languages are designed for writing system software, which usually requires different development approaches when compared with application software. Edsger Dijkstra refers to these language as Machine Oriented High Order Languages, or mohol. Some languages straddle the system and application domains, bridging the gap between these uses. The canonical example is C, which is used widely for both system and application programming. Some modern languages also do this such as Rust and Swift.

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enA system programming language is a programming language used for system programming; such languages are designed for writing system software, which usually requires different development approaches when compared with application software. Edsger Dijkstra refers to these language as Machine Oriented High Order Languages, or mohol. Some languages straddle the system and application domains, bridging the gap between these uses. The canonical example is C, which is used widely for both system and application programming. Some modern languages also do this such as Rust and Swift.
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enA system programming language is a programming language used for system programming; such languages are designed for writing system software, which usually requires different development approaches when compared with application software. Edsger Dijkstra refers to these language as Machine Oriented High Order Languages, or mohol. General-purpose programming languages tend to focus on generic features to allow programs written in the language to use the same code on different platforms. Examples of such languages include ALGOL and Pascal. This generic quality typically comes at the cost of denying direct access to the machine's internal workings, and this often has negative effects on performance. System languages, in contrast, are designed not for compatibility, but for performance and ease of access to the underlying hardware while still providing high-level programming concepts like structured programming. Examples include SPL and ESPOL, both of which are similar to ALGOL in syntax but tuned to their respective platforms. Others are cross-platform but designed to work close to the hardware, like BLISS, JOVIAL and BCPL. Some languages straddle the system and application domains, bridging the gap between these uses. The canonical example is C, which is used widely for both system and application programming. Some modern languages also do this such as Rust and Swift.
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Ada (programming language)
ALGOL
ALGOL 60
ALGOL 68
ALGOL W
Apollo Computer
Apple Inc.
Assembly language
Automatic Reference Counting
B (programming language)
BCPL
Bjarne Stroustrup
BLISS
Burroughs Corporation
C (programming language)
C++
Carnegie Mellon University
Category:Programming language topics
Category:System software
Category:Systems programming languages
Compiler
Control Data Corporation
Cross compiler
CubeSat
D (programming language)
Dennis Ritchie
Digital Mars
Docker (software)
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Eiffel (programming language)
Embedded system
Erlang (programming language)
Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language
FORTRAN
Go (programming language)
Google
Haskell (programming language)
Honeywell, Inc.
Honeywell CP-6
HP 3000
HP Multi-Programming Executive
I
IBM
IBM AIX
Inline assembly
IOS
Jean Ichbiah
JOVIAL
Kernel (operating system)
Language for Systems Development
Lisp (programming language)
MacApp
MacOS
MCP (Burroughs Large Systems)
Modula-3
MOL-360
Mozilla Research
Multics
NEWP
Niklaus Wirth
Nim (programming language)
NOS (software)
Oberon (programming language)
Objective-C
Object Pascal
OpenVMS
Ousterhout's dichotomy
output
Pascal (programming language)
PL360
PL-6
Podman
PreScheme
Programming language
Python (programming language)
Qt (software)
Redox OS
Ruby (programming language)
Rust (programming language)
S
Servo (software)
SHARE (computing)
Simula
Structured programming
Swift (programming language)
SYMPL
System programming
System Programming Language
System software
Systems Programming Language
TvOS
Unix-like
Unreal Engine
WatchOS
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3oLmm
Bahasa pengaturcaraan sistem
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System programming language
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