For example, Java and C# cannot walk like a duck, not even if that is what it would take to save themselves from drowning. Therefore, they are absolutely unsuit

For example, Java and C# cannot walk like a duck, not even if that is what it would take to save themselves from drowning. Therefore, they are absolutely unsuitable as system languages. Hadoop held the world record for sorting a Terrabyte for a while. If sorting large amounts of data as fast as possible isn't a system's programming task, then I'm a three-headed monkey.