Alef

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  ALEF
       
           A programming language from {Bell Labs}.  ALEF
          boasts few new ideas but is instead a careful synthesis of
          ideas from other languages.  The result is a practical general
          purpose programming language which was once displacing {C} as


          their main implementation language.  Both {shared variables}
          and {message passing} are supported through language
          constructs.
       
          A {window system}, {user interface}, {operating system}
          network code, {news reader}, {mailer} and variety of other
          tools in {Plan 9} are now implemented using ALEF.
       
          (1997-02-13)