RE: [Sml-implementers] SML IDE as language promotion

[Nick B. <ni...@mi...>]

SML.NET is integrated into Visual Studio (and so too are F# and even
Haskell now).

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/TSG/SMLNET/

You can write mixed-language projects (e.g. SML/C#/VB, which is
particularly handy if you want to use the visual designers to generate
C# for a GUI with SML logic behind). You get syntax highlighting,
bracket matching, continuous syntax and type-checking, you can hover
over expressions and patterns to see their type, Intellisense completion
on both .NET and SML libraries, source code debugging (set breakpoints,
step through mixed-language code, examine bindings, etc.).=20

It's also worth remembering that, way back in the last century,
Harlequin's now-defunct MLWorks system had an ML-specific development
environment with some pretty nice features.

  Nick

-----Original Message-----
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Alexandre
Sent: 11 March 2005 20:52
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Subject: [Sml-implementers] SML IDE as language promotion

Dear subscribers,

I just re-read article "Why no one use functional languages" (you can =20
find it here: =20
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/sigplan-why/sigplan-=20
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 =20
find such a tool for an SML. There is Eclipse development for Haskell, =20
OCaml (which actually has already they own native IDE), but not for =20
SML, while there are so many implementations and developers of SML =20
Language.

Don't you think that such a good tools will "promote" language and =20
probably gives more "forces" (people) for the language?

What about some type of collaboration to bring new developer tools to =20
the users?


Regards,
/Alexandre.




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