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The smallness of SML is a big part of why this is 'A Tour of Standard ML' instead of 'A Tour of OCaml' or 'A Tour of Haskell'. It's small enough to learn in a c
by saityi 7y ago
The smallness of SML is a big part of why this is 'A Tour of Standard ML' instead of 'A Tour of OCaml' or 'A Tour of Haskell'. It's small enough to learn in a couple days (in my mind!), but it has all of the niceties of statically typed, immutable functional languages, so it provides a good introduction to those ideas.
That said, I love how small it is, too. Every time I go back to SML, I find it refreshing how much power there is in a few simple ideas expressed well.
- agumonkey 7y agothe benefits, how I see them, is that the language never impedes your mind.. there are like 5 ideas, and the rest is pure thinking. but well I was acquainted to typed FP before, to some or the mere mortals (just kidding) it might look like a sad joke.