[Sml-implementers] SML IDE as language promotion

[Alexandre <Xle...@ra...>]

Dear subscribers,

I just re-read article "Why no one use functional languages" (you can  
find it here:  
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/sigplan-why/sigplan- 
why.ps).

At that article you might notice absolutely fair notice about tools (no  
one will encouraged to use new language without good tools). I hope you  
will agree, that IDE is really useful and important tool, but I can't  
find such a tool for an SML. There is Eclipse development for Haskell,  
OCaml (which actually has already they own native IDE), but not for  
SML, while there are so many implementations and developers of SML  
Language.

Don't you think that such a good tools will "promote" language and  
probably gives more "forces" (people) for the language?

What about some type of collaboration to bring new developer tools to  
the users?


Regards,
/Alexandre.