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By Kim Nyberg. Paper presents, discusses, compares Inferno network OS and its Limbo language: history, precedents, motives, goals, main features; similarities, differences to Java OS, Java. Bibliography. Helsinki University of Technology.
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An Analysis of Inferno and Limbo  This paper presents and analyzes the Inferno network operating system and the Limbo programming language. The history, preceding work, motivation and goals of Inferno is presented, and the main features of the Inferno system are discussed and analyzed. The accompanying...
http://www.cs.hut.fi/~kny/inferno/

in BYTE Magazine, sec. Core Technologies.
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BYTE.com  This language allows for the easy writing of threaded programs with bidirectional communications. Larry Rau Limbo is a new general-purpose programming language developed by Lucent Technologies for writing applications that run on the Inferno OS (see Inferno: One Hot OS...
http://www.byte.com/art/9710/sec4/art5.htm

Article by Brian W. Kernighan.
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A Descent into Limbo  I who saw it hardly can accept it Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto XXV 32; Limbo is a new programming language, designed by Sean Dorward, Phil Winterbottom, and Rob Pike. Limbo borrows from, among other things, C (expression syntax and control...
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html

Language basics, programming guide and language definition.
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SDK Refernce  Basics a tutorial introduction to the elements of Limbo. Limbo Programming programming techniques, with examples. Limbo Language Definition the formal language definition, including the grammar. Inferno Reference Manual documentation for Inferno commands, API, Styx, and system overview information. infernosupport@lucent.com Copyright...
http://agni.csa.iisc.ernet.in/Op...tingSystems/Inferno/Limbo_Ref20/

Language definition (January 1997).
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Limbo Manual (January 1997)  Overview and introduction 2 Lexical conventions 3 Syntax notation 4 Types and objects 5 Limbo programs 6 Declarations 7 Function definitions 8 Expressions 9 Statements 10 Referring to modules; import 11 Scope 12 Examples 13 Syntax summary The Limbo Programming...
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/inferno/limbo/