top | item 24606393 (no title) cconroy | 5 years ago "statically, strongly typed Lisp that still doesn't sacrifice its flexibility and expressive power"SML discuss order hn newest TeMPOraL|5 years ago ... with sane (i.e. s-expression based) syntax.:).But I'll check out SML. That's Standard ML, right? masklinn|5 years ago > ... with sane (i.e. s-expression based) syntax.You can just enclose all your function calls in parens :DAlso you probably want to check out OCaml rather than SML, I don't know that SML has much of a presence… anywhere really. cconroy|5 years ago Yeah.ML syntax is very pleasant, and roughly, sexprs w/o all the punctuation noise.I don't believe it has a macro capability like lisps though, but you gain a sophisticated type helper.Definitely worth looking into! Ar-Curunir|5 years ago FWIW, SML is an old research-focused language that was the progenitor of Haskell and Ocaml and Rust, and not something to program in :) load replies (1)
TeMPOraL|5 years ago ... with sane (i.e. s-expression based) syntax.:).But I'll check out SML. That's Standard ML, right? masklinn|5 years ago > ... with sane (i.e. s-expression based) syntax.You can just enclose all your function calls in parens :DAlso you probably want to check out OCaml rather than SML, I don't know that SML has much of a presence… anywhere really. cconroy|5 years ago Yeah.ML syntax is very pleasant, and roughly, sexprs w/o all the punctuation noise.I don't believe it has a macro capability like lisps though, but you gain a sophisticated type helper.Definitely worth looking into! Ar-Curunir|5 years ago FWIW, SML is an old research-focused language that was the progenitor of Haskell and Ocaml and Rust, and not something to program in :) load replies (1)
masklinn|5 years ago > ... with sane (i.e. s-expression based) syntax.You can just enclose all your function calls in parens :DAlso you probably want to check out OCaml rather than SML, I don't know that SML has much of a presence… anywhere really.
cconroy|5 years ago Yeah.ML syntax is very pleasant, and roughly, sexprs w/o all the punctuation noise.I don't believe it has a macro capability like lisps though, but you gain a sophisticated type helper.Definitely worth looking into!
Ar-Curunir|5 years ago FWIW, SML is an old research-focused language that was the progenitor of Haskell and Ocaml and Rust, and not something to program in :) load replies (1)
TeMPOraL|5 years ago
:).
But I'll check out SML. That's Standard ML, right?
masklinn|5 years ago
You can just enclose all your function calls in parens :D
Also you probably want to check out OCaml rather than SML, I don't know that SML has much of a presence… anywhere really.
cconroy|5 years ago
ML syntax is very pleasant, and roughly, sexprs w/o all the punctuation noise.
I don't believe it has a macro capability like lisps though, but you gain a sophisticated type helper.
Definitely worth looking into!
Ar-Curunir|5 years ago