Alef (programming language)

Alef - discontinued concurrent programming language, designed as part of the Plan 9 operating system. This programming language is the 399^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 363^rd most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article “Alef (programming language)” in English Wikipedia has 18.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Alef (programming language)”, its content was written by 41 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 129 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Alef is on the 363^rd place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 399^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 75 times in English Wikipedia and cited 283 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #108985 in September 2006
• Global: #75280 in September 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #220980 in October 2011
• Global: #354638 in October 2011

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		18.4171
2	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		18.3069
3	English (en) Alef (programming language)		18.1208
4	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		16.24
5	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		16.1128
6	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		11.5564
7	Malay (ms) Alef		8.0947
8	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		3.069
9	French (fr) Alef (langage)		2.1628

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Alef (programming language)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alef (programming language)		248 807
2	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		12 360
3	French (fr) Alef (langage)		8 417
4	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		6 877
5	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		6 486
6	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		3 502
7	Malay (ms) Alef		2 844
8	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		808
9	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		337

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Alef (programming language)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alef (programming language)		562
2	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		33
3	French (fr) Alef (langage)		20
4	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		19
5	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		10
6	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		9
7	Malay (ms) Alef		6
8	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		1
9	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Alef (programming language)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Alef (programming language)		41
2	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		40
3	French (fr) Alef (langage)		19
4	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		13
5	Malay (ms) Alef		5
6	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		4
7	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		3
8	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Alef (programming language)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		0
2	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		0
3	English (en) Alef (programming language)		0
4	French (fr) Alef (langage)		0
5	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		0
6	Malay (ms) Alef		0
7	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		0
8	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		0
9	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Alef (programming language)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		150
2	English (en) Alef (programming language)		75
3	Malay (ms) Alef		15
4	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		11
5	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		8
6	French (fr) Alef (langage)		7
7	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		6
8	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		6
9	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		5

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ألف (لغة برمجة)
de	German Alef (Programmiersprache)
en	English Alef (programming language)
fr	French Alef (langage)
it	Italian Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)
ms	Malay Alef
no	Norwegian Alef (programmeringsspråk)
pt	Portuguese Alef (linguagem de programação)
uk	Ukrainian Alef (мова програмування)

Best Rank

English: #220980 10.2011

Global: #354638 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #108985 09.2006

Global: #75280 09.2006

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