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Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today by andrewflnr on Friday October 11, 2013 @03:19PM (#6535295)
The way I like to think of it is that a "systems langauge" is something you could use to implement a "real"[0] GC. Does this ring true to anyone else?

[0] You know what I mean.

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Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today by pjmlp on Friday October 11, 2013 @03:52PM (#6535531)
A systems language is one with enough features to allow developers to write kernel code and device drivers, even if with a little help from assembly.

A GC is just a special case of a memory manager.

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Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today by agumonkey on Friday October 11, 2013 @08:53PM (#6536768)
my own take :

systems language => for building systems, many parts, many interconnections

operating system language => ability to use the hardware with no limitation. even for a monolithic part.

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Re:Facebook is using D in production starting today by he_the_great on Friday October 11, 2013 @09:03PM (#6536807)
> systems language => for building systems, many parts, many interconnections

So... every language?

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