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From: alanf@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Alan Grant Finlay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: PD SML?
Summary: You must be kidding
Message-ID: <2646@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 11 Jul 90 15:23:02 GMT
References: <23308@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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In article <23308@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, dennis@dennis.colorado.edu writes:
> 
> Can anyone point me to an ftp'able public domain source code
> version of standard ML?

Public domain?  You can't be serious!

It costs thousands of dollars to produce such code.  If it were made
public domain anybody could dress it up and sell it.  You can get executables
for an SML compiler from Edinburgh University provided you are going to use
it for research only.  If you want source code I think the best you will
find is Luca Cardelli's old (before standard) compiler for ML or source
for LML (Lazy ML) again for research only.  Luca Cardelli is with Digital
I believe and LML comes from Chalmers (try Lennart Augustsson, email:
auustss@cs.chalmers.se").