ALEF

language A programming language from Bell Labs. ALEF

boasts few new ideas but is instead a careful synthesis of

ideas from other languages. The result is a practical general

purpose programming language which was once displacing C as

their main implementation language. Both shared variables

and message passing are supported through language

constructs.

A window system, user interface, operating system

network code, news reader, mailer and variety of other

tools in Plan 9 are now implemented using ALEF.

(1997-02-13)