Limbo (programming language)

Limbo is a <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a> for writing distributed systems and is the language used to write <a href="/facts/Application_software/YQuj7Kog">applications</a> for the <a href="/facts/Inferno_(operating_system)/baKPoWRU">Inferno operating system</a>. It was designed at <a href="/facts/Bell_Labs/fKP5Gk0H">Bell Labs</a> by Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom, and <a href="/facts/Rob_Pike/K5R9UoSH">Rob Pike</a>.
The Limbo <a href="/facts/Compiler/WNfCDFJe">compiler</a> generates <a href="/facts/Computer_architecture/tHtwxgR2">architecture</a>-independent <a href="/facts/Object_code/Sht3h4lW">object code</a> 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.
Limbo's approach to concurrency was inspired by <a href="/facts/C._A._R._Hoare/vBeb3cmn">Hoare</a>'s <a href="/facts/Communicating_sequential_processes/bzKGnJ50">communicating sequential processes</a> (CSP), as implemented and amended in Pike's earlier <a href="/facts/Newsqueak/23L0hhUE">Newsqueak</a> language and Winterbottom's <a href="/facts/Alef_(programming_language)/NgzC2SA2">Alef</a>.

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