Generally system programming is that you're able to interact with the system without some sort of "bridge". For that reason Java and C# cannot be counted as sy

Generally system programming is that you're able to interact with the system without some sort of "bridge". For that reason Java and C# cannot be counted as system programming languages, because neither of those can interact directly with the system they're running on. Ex. C# needs PInvoke, where as C can just call system functions directly. At least that's my understanding.