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From: murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Re: PD SML?
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Date: 13 Jul 90 13:05:42 GMT
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alanf@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Alan Grant Finlay) writes:

>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").

But even though it costs thousands of dollars, AT&T is putting it into
the copylefted domain.  Not the public domain, where anybody and her
brother can steal it, but certainly available to anybody that wants it.

And SML of New Jersey is a really high-quality product.  They have
added lots of functionality, and they have a very good compiler and
runtime system.

The place to get it is research.att.com (or princeton.edu) by FTP.

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