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Re:Introducing the Go Playground by kaib on Thursday September 16, 2010 @09:52AM (#1697792)
In this context systems language is difference from having access to the operating system. A systems language lets you write things like device drivers or operating systems.
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Re:Introducing the Go Playground by mahmud on Thursday September 16, 2010 @10:35AM (#1697927)
The only "systems language" is one that an OS with its accompanying device drivers are written in.

Would you consider C a systems language? well, C is useless under a LispOS, for example. Ditto for Java. If you wrote the whole OS in Java, presto, Java would be the language to write device drivers.

IOW, "systems" is a relative term.

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