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From: dsherif@csws7.ic.sunysb.edu (Darin D Sheriff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is there an ML for the amiga?
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Date: 16 Jan 91 01:43:21 GMT
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In article <8113@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
>In article <41023@nigel.ee.udel.edu> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>>The ML for the Amiga is the standard 68000 assembly code. A good place to
>>
>>I (ahem) ASSUME that you mean "machine language" by "ML."
>
>Bzzzzzt!  I actually found out about this one today in a class about
>formal specification of language semantics (it's required,
>unfortunately).  ML means "meta-language".  I think it's a language
>for specifying other languages.  On the other hand, there weren't
>three words in a row in that lecture I understood.  Have you ever had
>to go to office hours after the *first* lecture?  Yechh.
>
>           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
>           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.


I took a computer science course that included programming in ML.  I Found It To Be...
Stimulating (If A difficult.)  If there is indeed a version existing
somewhere for the Amiga, don't be too shy in broadcasting it.  I would love to get
my hands on a copy.
-- 
           Darin Sheriff.  Just a College student with an Amiga.
 "The Most dangerous thing in the world is to leap a chasm in two jumps."
                                  -unknown-
 Disclaimer:  Wasn't me.