>How modern is modern CS? The creators of Go were on the team that built UNIX, and they clearly have a different meaning for the word systems. They were using

>How modern is modern CS? The creators of Go were on the team that built UNIX, and they clearly have a different meaning for the word systems. They were using it to refer to infrastructure, without making a distinction whether it was distributed or local. Something like a compiler would be "systems" program under this definition. I agree that distributed systems, and systems programming are generally accepted terms of the art in CS now, and even 20 years ago.