Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Major mode for editing and running (Standard) ML. (Code incl.) Keywords: SML, sml-mode.el Message-ID: <1160@etive.ed.ac.uk> Date: 19 Dec 88 12:15:50 GMT References: <1355@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> <33594@bbn.COM> <1357@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> Sender: news@etive.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U Lines: 34 In article <1357@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> lbn@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Lars Bo Nielsen) writes: >Standard ML (Meta Language) is a strongly typed (including polymorphic >types), strict/eager functional language with abstract datatypes, >patterns, modules, exception handling etc. (a lazy version has been >developed in Sweden, LML). Its origion is Edinborough England where it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Actually, it's EDINBURGH in SCOTLAND! Small point, perhaps, except that a vast majority of Scots aren't too keen on the way the English government runs things these days (pretty much London-biased), and like to point out that Scotland isn't the same as England... Ok, enough of the politics :-) >The latest and far best implementation is quite >new, and was done by David MacQueen at AT&T. Dave MacQueen at AT&T and Andrew Appel at Princeton University did most of the implementation work, based on groundwork laid at Edinburgh. Now, the development is starting to spread to US universities, and of course we at Edinburgh are researching ML and developing software as well. >Try it, you will like it :-) I hope so... :-) > Lars Bo Nielsen |@| Wise words in latin: Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ...while the builders of the cages sleep with bullets, bars and stone, they do not see your road to freedom that you build with flesh and bone.