[HN Gopher] Standard ML Family ___________________________________________________________________ Standard ML Family Author : rdpintqogeogsaa Score : 26 points Date : 2022-04-16 19:55 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (smlfamily.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (smlfamily.github.io) | sgeisenh wrote: | Standard ML is incredibly usable but also very small | (syntactically and semantically) especially compared with modern | algol-family languages. | | There are a couple of quality of life features missing (most | notably is record update syntax), but I really enjoy that the | core language has not changed in 25 years. | seanstrom wrote: | As a fan of ML family languages I have a question for SML lovers. | What do you typically build with SML? | | For context, I'm web programmer and I'm also learning game dev, | can I use SML productively? | | Or are there other tasks that I could use SML for? | csb6 wrote: | It is good at parsing/other compiler-related tasks. Basically | anything where you are working with tree structures I think can | be a good fit. It is also good as a way to learn about | functional programming. | eatonphil wrote: | It would be great to see Julian Hyde's Morel [0, 1] on this list | as well. | | And also WebML [2], SOSML [3], Bright-ML [4] (had to refresh my | memory from my 2020 post on the topic [5]). | | [0] http://blog.hydromatic.net/2020/02/25/morel-a-functional- | lan... | | [1] https://github.com/hydromatic/morel | | [2] https://github.com/KeenS/webml | | [3] https://github.com/SOSML/SOSML | | [4] https://github.com/elpinal/bright-ml | | [5] https://notes.eatonphil.com/standard-ml-in-2020.html ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-16 23:00 UTC)