Limbo

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Sources mentioning this language

8 sources · pl_id: pl/limbo
LLM (this repo) · 1PldbLinguistPygmentsWikipediaHyperpolyglotRosettacodeWikidata · Q544927

Wikipedia infobox

Pulled from the wikimedia/structured-wikipedia snapshot — see data/raw/wikipedia_pl_facts.*.jsonl and pl_fact.csv for the long-table provenance.

Paradigmsconcurrent
Typingstrong
Designed byBell Labs / Vita Nuova Holdings · Sean Dorward · Phil Winterbottom · Rob Pike
First appeared1995
Influenced byC · Pascal · CSP · Alef · Newsqueak
LicenseGNU GPL v2, see NOTICE in limbo subfolder of the tarball
Homepagehttps://web.archive.org/web/20250207231314/http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/limbo.html

Extensions claimed by this language

3 claims. Each row is one upstream assertion with its strength. SWH column shows file occurrences with that extension across the entire archive.
ExtensionSourceStrengthSWH
.blinguistprimary165.4K files
.bpygmentsprimary165.4K files
.mlinguistsecondary46.5M files

Related languages

Limn (0.30)Lingo (0.27)Lego (0.18)Lily (0.18)Logo (0.18)

LLM-contributed programs

Hello World

Provenance: commit d4aecb069a · authored 2025-10-23T09:50:35+02:00 · model x-ai/grok-4-fast · Temp 0.4
code.b · added: 2025-10-23T07:50:35Z
implement Hello;

include "sys.m";

sys: Sys;

init()
{
	sys = load Sys Sys->PATH;
	sys->print("Hello world\n");
}

Real programs from Software Heritage

No SWH evidence indexed yet for this language. (Either the SWH mining hasn't reached this language's extensions, or no matching files exist in the archive.)

Disambiguation rules

Linguist heuristic rules that predict this language when one of its claimed extensions is shared with another.
RuleExtKindPredicates (truncated)
h/linguist/.m/6.mpredicates[{"kind": "any", "regexes": ["^\\w+\\s*:\\s*module\\s*\\{"]}]

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