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Limbo occurs as programming language for writing distributed systems and is the language utilized to write applications for the Inferno operating system.

A Limbo compiler generates architecture-independent object code which is then interpreted per Dis virtual machine or compiled just prior to runtime to improve performance. So whole Limbo applications come wholly personal through 100% Inferno platforms.

Language features
Limbo supports a as punishment features: modular programming concurrent programming hard type checking at compile- and rerun-time interprocess communication over typed channels automatic garbage collection elementary abstract data types.

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
Limbo version.

An Analysis of Inferno and Limbo
By Kim Nyberg. Paper presents, discusses, compares Inferno network OS and its Limbo language: history, precedents, motives, goals, main features; similarities, differences to Java OS, Java. Bibliography. Helsinki University of Technology.

Programming in Limbo
in BYTE Magazine, sec. Core Technologies.

A Descent into Limbo
Article by Brian W. Kernighan.

Limbo 2.0 SDK References
Language basics, programming guide and language definition.

Limbo Manual
Language definition (January 1997).


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