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SML is a practical and realistic language for general programming - surprisingly so, coming to it again 20+ years after first encountering it as an incomprehens
by cannam 9y ago
SML is a practical and realistic language for general programming - surprisingly so, coming to it again 20+ years after first encountering it as an incomprehensible academic oddity. The world has moved much closer to it in the meantime.
However, it doesn't have the kind of library support you expect for most practical tasks (unlike its sibling Ocaml).
- marktangotango 9y agoLast time ML came up, PolyML was mentioned which has much more complete systems libraries (threads, sockets, etc). Looks really great, I haven't gotten around to trying it myself though.