The "Standard" in the phrase "Standard ML" is all the context that someone with a reasonably broad knowledge of programming language history (as is common among

The "Standard" in the phrase "Standard ML" is all the context that someone with a reasonably broad knowledge of programming language history (as is common among the HN crowd) would normally need. For everyone else, hey, click a link, learn a thing. Clicking links and learning about new things is theoretically a primary reason to come to HN in the first place.