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who's parading it as that? Certainly not the Go team

It was introduced with those words. They have changed since (a long time ago too).

At the very top of the Go web site it used to prominently say "a systems programming language" [1].

"It was introduced with those words. They have changed since (a long time ago too)."

Yes, I read that comment. I was providing evidence to back up that claim, in case you did not notice.

Thanks for doing that