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Alef is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Philip Wadler and Simon Peyton Jones. It is named after the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Alef is based on the functional programming language Haskell and the object-oriented language Java. It is also influenced by the programming language ML. Alef is a statically typed language. This means that variables must be declared with their types before they can be used. Alef programs are made up of modules. A module can contain data types, functions, and classes. Alef has an efficient garbage collector that reclaims memory that is no longer being used by a program. Alef programs can be run on any platform that supports the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Alef is an open source project. The source code is available under the GNU General Public License.