Limbo programming language

Limbo is a programming language for writing distributed systems and is the language used to write Application software for the Inferno (operating system) operating system.

The Limbo Compiler generates Computer architecture-independent object code which is then interpreted by the Dis virtual machine or compiled just before runtime to improve performance. Therefore all Limbo applications are completely portable across all Inferno platforms.

=Language features=

Limbo supports the following features:

Modularity (programming)

concurrent programming

strong type checking at compile- and run-time

interprocess communication over typed channels

automatic garbage collection (computer science)

simple abstract data types.

=See also=

The Inferno (operating system) operating system.

Alef - The predecesor of Limbo.

Plan 9 from Bell Labs

=External links=

*[http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/limbo.html Vita Nuova page on Limbo]