OSCON 2012 notes

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:41:05 +0200
Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
> 
> Regarding systems programming, Go could actually play in the same
> league as D
[...]
> The trick with Oberon, which Go also uses, is to have a special module
> reckognised by the compiler with primitives to do the low tricks C 
> offers. Additionaly any function/method without body can be
> implemented in Assembly. This is nothing new, Modula-2 already worked
> like this.
> 

If a language has to resort to such "outside-of-the-language" tricks
like that to do system software, then it's just simply not a systems
language.

If that meant Go^H^HIssue 9 could play in the same systems league as D,
then scripting languages like Lua or JavaScript or even VBScript would
qualify, too.