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weatherlight on Sept 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Four Lectures on Standard ML (1989) [pdf]

i concur with this assessment. I did the wonderful course, "Programming Languages, Part A" by The University of Washington. Part "A" of the course teaches Functional Programming and uses Standard ML as a vehicle to teach it's semantics.

I completely fell in love with the language, but I concur that the tooling is almost non-existent and the error messages that bubble up, leaves much to be desired.

azdavis on Sept 6, 2023 | [–]

I made a language server for SML with a focus on attempting to provide good error messages: https://azdavis.net/posts/millet/

weatherlight on Sept 7, 2023 | | [–]

it's wonderful and thank you :)

avg_dev on Sept 6, 2023 | [–]

i took that course. it was a whole lot of fun. i still have yet to take parts B and C.

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