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

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

At 2005-03-14 14:18:29+0000, "Nick Benton" writes:

> (c) come up with something even better

Which, ISTR, is why this list was set up.  Apparently we can't use the
name "Standard ML" for whatever we come up with....

I find my interest in cool new language features has waned
considerably over time, possibly due to the absence of compelling
examples.  I don't use half the cool features of the languages which I
do use at work (mostly Python, Common Lisp, C, and some Perl and C++
for my sins).  I don't even *know* many of the cool features.  They're
just excess baggage which the language implementation has to carry
around but which most programmers don't, and IMO shouldn't, bother to
make brain-space for.

Standard ML, to my humble mind, was just the right size for a
language, and had an almost total absence of cool features.  I used
just about everything it had, and wanted almost nothing that it didn't
have (apart from, as I've said, easy access to massive libraries).

Nick B