On 7/21/12 10:16 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
The Go people no longer refer to Go as a systems language. I believe
they did intend for it to be a systems language in the same manner D is
but over time they decided to focus less on that.
Here's what Russ Cox said on that matter:
"We removed the word 'systems' because it was too limiting.
Go is more general than that. It is still a great language for
writing systems."
Yah, it's one of those things that stuck just like "Scala is FP on the
JVM", characterization that Martin Odersky himself was surprised of (and
refuted).
Andrei
