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Since the term is not defined anything can be considered a systems programming language.

• _ak 10y ago
  The Go developers provided their definition, which is something people conveniently ignore whenever they try to be clever about Go not being a systems programming language.
  • jjnoakes 10y ago
    To be fair, if I repurpose a term that is widely used in one way to mean something else, the confusion that ensues is kind of my fault.
    • geodel 10y ago
      So many places I worked had systems engineering department and none of them had anything to do with operating systems/ device drivers. I wonder whether it has to do with OS hackers hanging on internet together and deciding what systems would mean.
    • _ak 10y ago
      There was no repurposing, as the context was exactly explained. Only later, the detractors decontextualized the Go team's original statements.