Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:70361 comp.sys.amiga.tech:15527 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!Chuck.Phillips From: Chuck.Phillips@FtCollins.NCR.COM (Chuck.Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Does ML exist for the Amiga? Message-ID: Date: 28 Oct 90 08:28:06 GMT References: <15710@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Oct26.064049.225@engin.umich.edu> Sender: uucp@ncr-mpd.FtCollins Organization: NCR Microelectronics, Ft. Collins, CO Lines: 32 In-reply-to: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu's message of 26 Oct 90 06:40:49 GMT >>>>> On 26 Oct 90 06:40:49 GMT, gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) said: Ralph> In article <15710@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> weebersa@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Steve Weeber) writes: >Does anyone know of a version of the ML programming language, preferably >Standard ML of New Jersey, for the Amiga? Ralph> I'm sure that it wouldn't be too much of a hassle getting it to go Ralph> on the Amiga (especially with GCC). Are you volunteering? ;^) Parts of the source (especially exception handling) are very UNIX specific. I'd expect the port to require nearly as much effort as was required to port GNU emacs, not a trivial chore indeed. Ralph> One major problem is getting the whole thing onto your Amiga. SML Ralph> WILL NOT work on a machine without a hard drive. Let's see. SML in Ralph> total on one of our Sun 4s takes up about 40 megs of disk space. Oh, I don't know about that. The actual raw executable (no pre-loaded libraries) is less than 800KB. Of course, swapping floppies to get enough MB of the libraries loaded to do anything useful would be a bit tedious. :-) Ralph> Not exactly peanuts. If somebody is willing to loan me a 600 meg Ralph> drive (permanently 8-), I'll work on the port (greed does have its Ralph> nice points 8-) How about 48 floppies? :-) -- Chuck Phillips MS440 NCR Microelectronics chuck.phillips%ftcollins.ncr.com 2001 Danfield Ct. Ft. Collins, CO. 80525 ...uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-mpd!bach!chuckp