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Standard ML

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Standard ML or SML is a general purpose functional programming language that gained some popularity in the 90's as a language for use in informatics research. It is a derivative of ML.

History

The language was developed between 1983 and 1985 at the University of Edinburgh.

Standard ML of New Jersey (SML/NJ) was developed jointly at Bell Laboratories, Princeton University and Yale University.

Caml (Categorical Abstract Machine Language) is a dialect of the ML programming language developed at ENS (later INRIA) in France.

OS/2 implementations

  • Moscow ML
  • Standard ML for PM (SML/PM) - native port of Edinburgh ML 4.1
  • SML/NJ 0.93 (smlnj093.zip) - emx port

Standard ML related programmer's utilities

  • Exuberant ctags - Creates index files out of SML source files - Open source - Current.

Publications

  • Wikstrom: Functional Programming Using Standard ML - Prentice Hall 1987, ISBN 0-13-331661-0
  • A.J.R. Milner and M. Tofte: The Definition of Standard ML - MIT Press 1990
  • Paulson: ML for the Working Programmer - Cambridge University Press 1991, ISBN 0-521-39022-2
  • Stansifer: ML Primer - Prentice Hall 1992, ISBN 0-13-561721-9
  • Myers; Clack; Poon: Programming with Standard ML - Prentice Hall 1993, ISBN 0-13-722075-8
  • Milner; Harper; MacQueen; Tofte: The Definition of Standard ML (Revised Edition) - MIT Press 1997, ISBN 9780262631815
  • Harper: Programming in Standard ML - PDF 2011

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