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From: aarons@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Edinburgh ML (summary)
Summary: Yet another ML - in Poplog
Keywords: ML Poplog
Message-ID: <1948@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 4 Jan 90 01:15:02 GMT
References: <1297@umigw.MIAMI.EDU>
Organization: School of Cognitive & Computing Sciences, Sussex Univ. UK
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aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) writes:

> Date: 17 Dec 89 23:34:17 GMT
> Sender: news@umigw.MIAMI.EDU
> Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.CS.Miami.Edu
>
> Thanks to everyone who responded here or by e-mail about Edinburgh ML;
> here's a distillation of the responses I received.

There's yet another another version of ML available as one of the
languages in Poplog. Poplog is a portable extendable software
development environment providing incremental compilers for Common
Lisp, Pop-11 (a lisp-like language with Pascal-like syntax), Prolog,
and ML. It also provides tools for adding incremental compilers for
new langauges, which then automatically run on all the hosts, with
full editing environment etc. It is possible for programs written in
different languages to call one other (though not all combinations
are easy.)

The currently distributed version of Poplog (version 13.6) has an
optional extension which is Standard ML version 1, and is being used
for teaching and research in a number of places (e.g. I believe it
is compatible with the Wikstrom textbook on ML).

The next release of Poplog (due out shortly) will, for the first
time, automatically include ML as one of its languages, i.e. the
new ML (version 2.0.). This will also include an interface to X11R3
(which has delayed the release, originally planned earlier).

Current hosts:
    VAX+VMS, VAX+Ultrix, VAX+Bsd 4.2/3, Sun-2,3,4, Sun386i,
    SPARCstation, Solbourne, Sequent Symmetry (with Dynix),
    HP M680?0+Unix workstations, Apollo+Unix,
    MAC-II with A/UX (still experimental - recently ported for us by
    Queen Mary College).

DECstation 3100 and MIPS versions should be available within a few
months.

Unfortunately Poplog is not free - it's a commercial product though
there is a discount of 85% or more for educational customers. For
more information contact:

In Canada or USA

    Prof Robin Popplestone
    Dept. of Computer and Information Science
    Lederle Graduate Research Center
    University of Massachusetts
    Amherst, MA  01003, USA

Email pop@cs.umass.edu

or
    Prof Robin Popplestone
    Computable Functions Inc.,
    35 South Orchard Drive,
    Amherst, MA 01002, USA      Phone(413) 253-7637


For UK educational users ONLY:

    Ms Alison Mudd
    School of Cognitive Sciences
    University of Sussex
    Brighton, BN1 9QN           phone: 0273-606755
                                email: alim@uk.ac.sussex.cogs

ALL others e.g. UK commercial users, all non-UK users, contact the
main distributors:

    Integral Solutions Ltd
    Unit 3, Campbell Court
    Bramley,
    Near Basingstoke,
    Hampshire,
    RG26 5EG
    England

    Phone   +44 256 882028     Fax +44 256 882182

    email isl@integ.uucp

Poplog is developed by Sussex University and, except for UK
academic users, distributed for us by Integral Solutions Ltd.

Apologies for late response and I hope this information is of some
use.

Aaron Sloman,
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
Univ of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, England
    EMAIL   aarons@cogs.sussex.ac.uk
or:
            aarons%uk.ac.sussex.cogs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk