D casually mentioned and dismissed + a suggestion

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed May 13 00:31:44 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 13 May 2015 at 03:30:53 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 May 2015 at 18:35:10 UTC, FujiBar wrote:
>> "Wikipedia tells us that there were a lot of other attempts 
>> besides D to kill C++ - for example Vala, Cyclone, Limbo, 
>> BitC. How many of you have even heard of these languages?"
>
> I've heard of every one except Limbo.
>

Maybe you know Go?

Limbo was Inferno's programming language, Plan 9's successor, 
where two of Go main creators were involved.

Go is at its core a merge between Limbo and Oberon-2 method 
declaration syntax.

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/docs.html



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