Language support for fast and reliable message-based communication in singularity OS
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006
Knit: component composition for systems software
OSDI'00 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Symposium on Operating System Design & Implementation - Volume 4
Fairness in shared invocation servicing
Computer Languages, Systems and Structures
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Limbo is the application programming language for the Inferno operating system. Although Limbo looks syntactically like C, it has a number of features that make it easier to use, safer, and more suited to the heterogeneous, networked Inferno environment: a rich set of basic types, strong typing, garbage collection, concurrency, communications, and modules. Limbo may be interpreted or compiled `just in time' for efficient, portable execution. This paper introduces the language by studying an example of a complete, useful Limbo program. The program illustrates general programming as well as aspects of concurrency, graphics, module loading, and other features of Limbo and Inferno.