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Both ML and Smalltalk are definitely not dead, not even mostly dead, they’ve just evolved into language families whose members have different names. The ML fam
by jbotz 7y ago
Both ML and Smalltalk are definitely not dead, not even mostly dead, they’ve just evolved into language families whose members have different names. The ML family has Standard ML, OCaml, and Haskell, and the Smalltalk family has Pharo, GemStone, GNU Smalltalk, and others. These all may not have hugely wide adoption, but they are actively used in both academia and industry, and continue to grow and evolve, and their continued evolution is still influencing other languages.
Ok, you can argue about the definition of "mostly dead", but whatever you decide these two just aren't in the same category as the others on this list.
- danharaj 7y agoHaskell isn't in the ML family. It is a descendant of Miranda and some other lazy functional languages.
- jbotz 7y agoGranted. 8-)
- igouy 7y ago> definition of "mostly dead" It's easy enough to understand — just look at when they were very much alive. "UbiquitousApplications:Embedded Systems to Mainframe" http://www.davethomas.net/papers/ubiquitous1995.pdf http://www.davethomas.net/papers/ubiquitous1995.pdf