Alef (programming language)

The Alef programming language was designed as part of the OS Plan 9 from Phil Winterbottom as an employee of the Research and Development Division Bell Labs.

At a presentation in February 2000 saw Rob Pike, " ... although Alef is a fruitful language, it has proved too difficult to maintain the development of a variant of the language over several architectures beyond. 's Why we have taken what we learned from it have created and the thread library for C. "

Example

This example was taken from the Alef Language Reference Manual. The extract illustrates the use of the data type tuple.

(int, byte *, byte)   func ( )   {    return ( 10, " hello ", ' c ');   }   void   main ()   {     int a;     byte * str;     byte c;     (a, str, c) = func ( );   } see also

  • Limbo, a direct descendant of Aleph, the most widely used language of the operating system Inferno.

Swell

  • Phil Winterbottom: Alef Language Reference Manual. In: Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume Two. AT & T of Murray Hill 1995.
  • Bob Flandrena: Aleph Users' Guide. In: Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume Two. AT & T of Murray Hill 1995.
  • Phil Winterbottom: Plan9 VM. comp.os.research, October 20, 1992, accessed on April 15, 2012.
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