On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:41:05 +0200 Paulo Pinto <pj...@progtools.org> wrote: > > Regarding systems programming, Go could actually play in the same > league as D [...] > The trick with Oberon, which Go also uses, is to have a special module > reckognised by the compiler with primitives to do the low tricks C > offers. Additionaly any function/method without body can be > implemented in Assembly. This is nothing new, Modula-2 already worked > like this. >
If a language has to resort to such "outside-of-the-language" tricks like that to do system software, then it's just simply not a systems language. If that meant Go^H^HIssue 9 could play in the same systems league as D, then scripting languages like Lua or JavaScript or even VBScript would qualify, too.