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It is one thing to fake and misrepresent the completeness of a video game, but it is entirely another to provide false or unverified medical results to patients.
"in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them"

John von Neumann

How is it related to the Standard Meta Language (SML) family of languages?
Re:Build a Compiler in Five Projects on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @04:04AM (#46043873)
I taught in the past and still like the trilogy of books

> Modern Compiler Implementation by Andrew W. Appel

It comes in three flavors C, ML (Meta Language), and Java

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/

Writing a compiler in Standard ML is as natural as writing a grammar and denotational semantics.

Compiler writing is becoming an extinct art.