MLWorks: SML compiler from Harlequin returning from the dead as open source

[rayiner]

A tutorial from CMU showing some of the capabilities of the system: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/97-212/mlworks-intro.html

[jfb]

It's been a while since I've seen a '/afs/...' path.

[mtp0101]

All hail Frank Pfenning!

[lemming]

This is great, I've always liked SML. It has a lot of what I like about Haskell without breaking my brain, and it seems like it could be a good option for a pragmatic systems development language when used with MLton. I even toyed with the idea of developing an IDE plugin for it but was put off by the difficulty of parsing it.

[miga]

Good luck guys! MLWorks had quite a reputation at the beginning of the century, and both ML & OCaml have then been already acclaimed as industrial strength functional languages.

[pjmlp]

Interesting, I only knew about Dylan!

Congratulations to all involved into getting it open sourced.

[aerique]

LispWorks also originated at Harlequin: http://www.lispworks.com/products/ide.html

[marshray]

$deity bless these fine folks for arranging this act of resurrection.

[rptb1]

Why thank you. Although we've opened the coffin, we've yet to reanimate the corpse. Anyone who'd like to help out, please take a look at https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mlworks/wiki/Roadmap

[jhawk28]

BSD licensed