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Re:Why I No Longer Like or Use C++ by scott_s on Thursday March 13, 2008 @02:07PM (#136121)
Much of the examples on Stroustrup's page qualify as systems code: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/applications.html.

A high profile, recent example is Google's MapReduce: http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html.

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Re:Why I No Longer Like or Use C++ by huhtenberg on Thursday March 13, 2008 @07:20PM (#136367)
Actually, they don't. Neither the MapReduce nor nearly all items on Stroustrup's list fall under conventional definition of the "system programming". It is an established term that does not mean programming of a system. It is rather a synonym of the "OS development".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_programming

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Re:Why I No Longer Like or Use C++ by scott_s on Thursday March 13, 2008 @09:25PM (#136443)
I include it to mean support software that sits between the OS and applications, like a runtime system or a memory allocator. Much of that code (and MapReduce) qualify.
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