Alef (programming language)
| Aleph | |
|---|---|
| Publishing year: | 1992 |
| Developer: | Phil Winterbottom |
| Influenced by: | Newsqueak |
| Affected: | limbo |
| Operating system : | Plan 9 |
The Alef programming language was designed as part of the Plan 9 operating system by Phil Winterbottom, an employee of Bell Labs' research and development department .
In a presentation in February 2000, Rob Pike remarked, “... although Aleph is a fertile language, it has proven too difficult to maintain the development of a variant of the language across multiple architectures. So we took what we learned from her and created the thread library for C. "
example
This example was taken from the Alef Language Reference Manual. The excerpt illustrates the use of the data type tuple .
(int, byte*, byte)
func()
{
return (10, "hallo", ’c’);
}
void
main()
{
int a;
byte* str;
byte c;
(a, str, c) = func();
}
See also
- Limbo , a direct successor to Aleph, the most widely used language of the Inferno operating system .
literature
- Phil Winterbottom: Alef Language Reference Manual . In: Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume Two . AT&T, Murray Hill 1995.
- Bob Flandrena: Alef Users' Guide . In: Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume Two . AT&T, Murray Hill 1995.
Web links
- Phil Winterbottom : Plan9 VM. comp.os.research, October 20, 1992, accessed April 15, 2012 (1c1denINN441@darkstar.UCSC.EDU).
- TLC Hackers' Hall of Fame ( Memento January 4, 2007 on the Internet Archive )