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

[Nick B. <Nic...@po...>]

At 2005-03-12 12:34:17+0000, "Nick Benton" writes:
> 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.). 

This is pretty cool.  Do you know whether anyone is using it?

> 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.

You're too kind.

Nick Barnes
ex-MLWorker
Director
Ravenbrook Limited