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Re:Standard ML Family by kristianp on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:28AM (#31059860)
Is there a history of the original ML dialect out there somewhere? It's surprisingly old, having first appeared in 1973 according to Wikipedia.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)

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Re:Standard ML Family by frou_dh on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:33AM (#31060406)
That's talked about in this recent article, "The History of Standard ML" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386336

There's also this video presentation, "The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVEgyJCTee4

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