Re:The State of Go
by learc83 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:09PM
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>How modern is modern CS?
The creators of Go were on the team that built UNIX, and they clearly have a different meaning for the word systems.
They were using it to refer to infrastructure, without making a distinction whether it was distributed or local. Something like a compiler would be "systems" program under this definition.
I agree that distributed systems, and systems programming are generally accepted terms of the art in CS now, and even 20 years ago.
The creators of Go were on the team that built UNIX, and they clearly have a different meaning for the word systems.
They were using it to refer to infrastructure, without making a distinction whether it was distributed or local. Something like a compiler would be "systems" program under this definition.
I agree that distributed systems, and systems programming are generally accepted terms of the art in CS now, and even 20 years ago.