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Standard ML

Functional Language

Standard ML descends from ML, which Robin Milner created at the University of Edinburgh in 1973 as the language for the LCF theorem prover. Standard ML's own formal specification, The Definition of Standard ML, was first published in 1990 and revised in 1997; it is a general-purpose, high-level, modular, functional language with compile-time type checking and type inference. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
First Released
1973 1
1973 is Robin Milner's original ML at Edinburgh; the Standard ML specification was first published in 1990.
Paradigm
General-purpose, high-level, modular, functional; static, strong type checking with type inference. 1
Significance
Distinctive among widely used languages for having a formal specification, given as typing rules and operational semantics; it shaped the later development of Haskell, Elm, F#, OCaml, Rust and Scala, and remains important for compiler-writing, programming-language research and theorem provers. 1
Connections

In Field

Source Wikipedia: Standard ML

Influenced

Source Wikipedia: Standard ML
OCaml, Programming Languages

OCaml infobox: "Influenced by: C, Caml, Modula-3, Pascal, Standard ML." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml

Invented By

Robin Milner, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Standard ML
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1. Wikipedia: Standard ML
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    distinctive among widely used languages in that it has a formal specification, given as typing rules and operational semantics
  • Invented By: Robin Milner
  • In Field: Programming Language Theory
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