Go: A new system programing language

[Bill Baxter]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> > It's harder to find those when you're skimming through trying to get
>> > the highlights with a 5 minute limit.  :-) What are some things is it
>> > missing?
>>
>> Off the top of my head, some major ones:
>>
>> . inline assembler
>> . interface to C
>
> Their definition of "systems programming language" is clearly different from mine then.  Shouldn't this classify Java as a systems language as well?

I'm starting to think their definition must just be "compiles to
native code" maybe together with "has static typing".

--bb