Interesting in light of Go:

  - New languages are needed for writing distributed/parallel applications
  `Needed', no.  `Helpful', perhaps.  The jury's still out.

Note that the Plan 9 team at the time were already working on Alef ( http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/2nd_edition/papers/alef/ ) and would later develop Limbo ( http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/4th_edition/limbo_language/ ) as the language for the Inferno distributed system ( http://doc.cat-v.org/inferno/ )

It's sad Linus doesn't want to learn.