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Alef (programming language)
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The Alef programming language was designed by Phil Winterbottom of Bell Labs as part of the Plan 9 operating system.
In a February 2000 slideshow, Rob Pike noted: "…although Alef was a fruitful language, it proved too difficult to maintain a variant language across multiple architectures, so we took what we learned from it and built the thread library for C."
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This example was taken from [1]. The piece illustrates the use of Tuple data type.
(int, byte*, byte)
func()
{
return (10, "hello", ’c’);
}
void
main()
{
int a;
byte* str;
byte c;
(a, str, c) = func();
}
- Limbo - A direct successor of Alef. The Limbo programming language is the most commonly used language in the Inferno operating system.
- Plan 9 from Bell Labs - The original environment where Alef was developed.
- Alef is purported to be Dennis Ritchie's favorite programming language.
- Winterbottom, Phil (1995). "Alef Language Reference Manual", Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume Two (PDF), Murray Hill: AT&T.
- Flandrena, Bob (1995). "Alef Users' Guide", Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume Two (PDF), Murray Hill: AT&T.
- Phil Winterbottom (October 20, 1992). "Plan9 VM". comp.os.research. (Web link).
- TLC Hackers' Hall of Fame
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