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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
by shiftoutbox 9y ago
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. Google the name of your project before naming it .
- pmcjones 9y agoApparently there are more projects than proper nouns. This just makes life more interesting.
- ShannonAlther 9y agoI'm going to be slightly unorthodox and say that as long as they're no embarking on the same type of venture, having the same name is more-or-less okay. Nobody with domain-specific knowledge is going to be confused by this, and it's barely even worth picking a fight over. If he wants to call it Limbo, I say let him.
- theoh 9y agoSee also Newsqueak (also Rob Pike) and the Squeak implementation of smalltalk. Would suggest "There is already a software project called Limbo, although it's in a quite different domain." In fact there is already also this: https://sourceforge.net/projects/limbopcemulator/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/limbopcemulator/ and the Limbo language is almost definitely not in serious use anywhere. (Having bought a copy of Inferno a few years ago and played with it, it didn't feel like a mature platform.)
- coldtea 9y ago>Limbo is a programming language for writing distributed systems Limbo was I fixed it for you.