Limbo

Limbo is a programming language for writing distributed systems and is the language used to write applications for the Inferno operating system. It was designed at Bell Labs by Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom, and Rob Pike. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1995
Developed by: Bell Labs
Named after: limbo

Wikidata: Q544927

Influenced: GoRust

Influenced by: C

Programming paradigms: concurrent computingmodular programming

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Hello World in Limbo

implement Hello;

include "sys.m";
	sys: Sys;
include "draw.m";

Hello: module
{
	init:	fn(ctxt: ref Draw->Context, argv: list of string);
};

init(ctxt: ref Draw->Context, argv: list of string)
{
	sys = load Sys Sys->PATH;
	sys->print("Hello World\n");
}

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