OSCON 2012 notes

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 7/21/12 10:16 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> The Go people no longer refer to Go as a systems language.  I believe
> they did intend for it to be a systems language in the same manner D is
> but over time they decided to focus less on that.
>
> Here's what Russ Cox said on that matter:
>
> "We removed the word 'systems' because it was too limiting.
> Go is more general than that.  It is still a great language for
> writing systems."

Yah, it's one of those things that stuck just like "Scala is FP on the 
JVM", characterization that Martin Odersky himself was surprised of (and 
refuted).

Andrei