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I love, love, love StandardML. I respect the sheer power of what mlton does. The language itself is clean, easy to understand, reads better than anything else
by vkazanov 1y ago
I love, love, love StandardML.
I respect the sheer power of what mlton does. The language itself is clean, easy to understand, reads better than anything else out there, and is also well-formalised. I read (enjoyed!) the tiger book before I knew anything about SML.
Sadly, this purism (not as in Haskell but as a vision) is what probably killed it. MLTon or not, the language needed to evolve, expand, rework the stdlib, etc.
But authors were just not interested in the boring part of language maintenance.
- johnnyjeans 1y agoWhat are your thoughts on basis[1] and successorml[2]? [1] - http://www.mlton.org/MLBasis http://www.mlton.org/MLBasis [2] - https://smlfamily.github.io/successor-ml/ https://smlfamily.github.io/successor-ml/
- vkazanov 1y agoI don't think these change anything for the language. Too little, too late.