ML

[TheQuirk]

Recently I have been talking to quite a few people on IRC (#tpu on freenode.net) about a programming language called "ML." Alot of them preffered it over C and told me to try it out. They gave me some links, and it looks pretty intresting so far (I'm writing my first program as we speak), but I'd like to know if anyone used it and if they liked it.

An SML book to anyone's that's intrested (PDF format) http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/smlbook/offline.pdf

[voidmain]

Strange. I just very briefly skimmed over a little of the PDF and I would have to say I've never seen anything like it.  I can see a slight hint of Pascal, a slight hint of Basic, not a single hint of C and the rest appears to be some space alien language.  I made a commitment to myself long ago that I would never use another language that used the keyword "let".    If you seriously make an attempt to learn it make sure you give us a report of what you think.

[Master of Reality]

i'll be stickin with C++ fer now. After i leran C++, C, Perl, Fortran, Assembly, Python, Basic, Java, PHP, asp(just jokin!!), then maybe i will try to learn this.

[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
Strange. I just very briefly skimmed over a little of the PDF and I would have to say I've never seen anything like it.  I can see a slight hint of Pascal, a slight hint of Basic, not a single hint of C and the rest appears to be some space alien language.  I made a commitment to myself long ago that I would never use another language that used the keyword "let".     If you seriously make an attempt to learn it make sure you give us a report of what you think.

 Hehe, I'm attempting. I'll make sure to write a report  

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:
i'll be stickin with C++ fer now. After i leran C++, C, Perl, Fortran, Assembly, Python, Basic, Java, PHP, asp(just jokin!!), then maybe i will try to learn this.

Don't forget Pascal, Ada and ASM.

[TheQuirk]

Ack! It's so painful to learn.. It's so different from C (or PHP, but it's extremly C-like)

[KernelPanic]

Anybody heard of ruby?

[rtgwbmsr]

I could imagine as to why one would think it looks like C...it does if you glance over it.

[TheQuirk]

Erm.. No it doesn't.. In fact, it's completely different.

[Kintaro]

Doesnt look like C or C++ looks like standard ML, I will learn it after learning PHP.

[TheQuirk]

http://www.schizomaniac.net/ml.html

Everyone should learn it.

[jtpenrod]

quote:Anybody heard of ruby?

Sure have. It's more strongly object oriented than Python. Structurally, it has borrowed features from Python, Perl, BASH Scripting, C, FORTRAN, and even Lisp. You can find out more about it here: Ruby Home Page

The FOX GUI toolkit has been ported to Ruby: FOX Ruby

It's the up and coming thing, having already surpassed Python, at least in Japan. None too shabby, and well worth learning.
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[TheQuirk]

(S)ML's functional programming model is superior to anything you ever used.

*chants "ML! ML! ML!"*

Deamons of inferior languages, out! Learn ML now! You lose nothing, except your soul!