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This is soooooooooooooo freaking cool.... it kicks Java and C# Synax's ASS!!! It's the lang I have been looking for the past few years... I was about to start working on my own (to be finished some time before 2020) it is missing SOME things I want.... but its got everything else :)

can we get an example of source from limbo please ?

Check out the examples at http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/limbo.html — DAGwyn 23:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ritchie in design?

Ritchie is not mentioned by BWK in http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.226.44.233 (talk) 19:46, 17 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Google's Go lang is not similar to Limbo. remove misleading link, please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.5.85.67 (talk) 22:31, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, world

I don't think "sh.m" is needed in the "hello, world" program. — DAGwyn 23:56, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's a poor example of Limbo. We need one that shows off the simplicity of its concurrency approach using channels. -- Ralph Corderoy (talk) 12:51, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Garbage collection

Inferno uses reference counting plus a four-color garbage collector. Reference counting deals with any memory that isn't cyclic.