ALEF

ALEF is a historical programming language created in 1992. Alef is a discontinued concurrent programming language, designed as part of the Plan 9 operating system by Phil Winterbottom of Bell Labs. It implemented the channel-based concurrency model of Newsqueak in a compiled, C-like language.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• ALEF first appeared in 1992
• See also: c, newsqueak, limbo, rust, go, csp
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Example code from Wikipedia:

(int, byte*, byte) 
func() 
{ 
    return (10, "hello", ’c’); 
}

void 
main() 
{
    int a; 
    byte* str; 
    byte c; 
    (a, str, c) = func(); 
}

Last updated July 22nd, 2019