Alef (programming language)

Alef - discontinued concurrent programming language, designed as part of the Plan 9 operating system. This programming language is the 409^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 365^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Alef (programming language)" in English Wikipedia has 18.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 4 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Alef (programming language)", its content was written by 40 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 130 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Alef is on the 365^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 409^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 71 times in English Wikipedia and cited 278 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #108988 in September 2006
• Global: #75148 in September 2006

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #220103 in October 2011
• Global: #356996 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, 2025 (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	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		23.8331
2	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		18.4978
3	English (en) Alef (programming language)		18.1653
4	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		16.3159
5	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		16.3034
6	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		11.7163
7	Malay (ms) Alef		7.595
8	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		3.0583
9	French (fr) Alef (langage)		2.1616

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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)		240 144
2	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		11 772
3	French (fr) Alef (langage)		8 194
4	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		6 636
5	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		3 182
6	Malay (ms) Alef		2 779
7	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		747
8	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		384
9	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		292

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Alef (programming language)		913
2	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		42
3	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		39
4	French (fr) Alef (langage)		37
5	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		18
6	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		17
7	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		16
8	Malay (ms) Alef		8
9	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		7

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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	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		41
2	English (en) Alef (programming language)		40
3	French (fr) Alef (langage)		19
4	Italian (it) Alef (linguaggio di programmazione)		13
5	Malay (ms) Alef		5
6	Norwegian (no) Alef (programmeringsspråk)		5
7	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		3
8	Portuguese (pt) Alef (linguagem de programação)		2
9	Ukrainian (uk) Alef (мова програмування)		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 2025

#	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)		71
3	Malay (ms) Alef		15
4	Arabic (ar) ألف (لغة برمجة)		9
5	German (de) Alef (Programmiersprache)		8
6	French (fr) Alef (langage)		8
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: #220103 10.2011

Global: #356996 10.2011

Best Rank

English: #108988 09.2006

Global: #75148 09.2006

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