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Minor nitpick: That already happened, Limbo is what happened when Bell Labs wrote Java.
by kick 7y ago
Minor nitpick: That already happened, Limbo is what happened when Bell Labs wrote Java.
- monocasa 7y agoAnd go is very very derived from plan 9. It could be considered a sibling of limbo in a lot of ways.
- anthk 7y agoMore like Limbo and Inferno.
- kick 7y agoLimbo doesn't only run on Inferno; anything with the Dis VM will work.
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- correct_horse 7y agoHuh. I managed to hear about Inferno, but not remember the Limbo part. In that case, Go is Bell Labs' second attempt at Java.
- kick 7y agoThird, there was also a language I can't remember the name of that happened at the same time as Alef.
- steveklabnik 7y agoNewsqueak?
- kick 7y agoThat may have been what I was thinking of (or Squeak, for that matter, if my sense of time was off), but I'm not sure!