Alef (programming language)

The Alef language was designed by Phil Winterbottom of Bell Labs as part of the Plan 9 operating system.

In a February 2000 slideshow, Rob Pike noted: "...although Alef was a fruitful language, it proved too difficult to maintain a variant language across multiple architectures, so we took what we learned from it and built the thread library for C."

References

Phil Winterbottom, Alef Language Reference Manual in Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume Two, AT&T, Murray Hill, 1995. [1]

Bob Flandrena, Alef Users' Guide in Plan 9 Programmer's Manual: Volume Two, AT&T, Murray Hill, 1995. [2]

USENET post to comp.os.research on October 20 1992 by Phil Winterbottom mentioning ALEF [3]