Status of SML/NJ

[Volkert Barr]

Dear SMLer,

it is more than 13 years ago that i used sml/nj i a research project. I was a student at that time and it was a great fun to work mit sml/nj. I now starting a long term "homegrew" project and i am not sure if i should give sml/nj a try or if i should go with some more "modern" and "active" languages like scala, haskell or erlang.

Here are some quesitions:

- Is there a concurrency / multi-core support? I am not sure what "cml" exactly is.
- Is there some gui support? wxWindgets-Bindings oder Gtk-Bindings?
- Is there some ssl support for socket communication.
- Is there something like a http-server/client for sml/nj?
- Is there database support? postgres or mysql?
- Will there a sml/nj compiler in 10 or 20 years?
- How large is the community?
- What are projects where sml/nj is used today?

Volkert

[Gergely Buday]

Dear Volkert,

I'm not the authorative person to answer your questions, but I can
answer some of them.

> - Is there a concurrency / multi-core support? I am not sure what "cml"
> exactly is.

It is a language for message-passing (vs. shared memory) concurrency.
There is a paper describing its implementation on multicore machines,
"Parallel Concurrent ML", available at

http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/cml.html

And there is a book:

http://books.google.hu/books?id=s309wPE2OoIC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=reppy+concurrent+ml+book&source=bl&ots=uul25UWsPE&sig=G1kohiLaIEB__rEt2TifoD7RseA&hl=hu&ei=y_S3StqBJ5Kj_Aav97C_DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false

> - Is there some gui support? wxWindgets-Bindings oder Gtk-Bindings?

There is binding called mGtk but as far as I know it is not maintained.

> - Is there something like a http-server/client for sml/nj?
> - Is there database support? postgres or mysql?

http://www.elsman.com/padl2003.pdf
+
http://www.itu.dk/people/mael/smltojs/

Unfortunately smlserver.org does not work at the moment.

I hope this helps. What would be your project?

- Gergely

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[Volkert Barr]

Gergely, thank you for your response.

> It is a language for message-passing (vs. shared memory) concurrency.
> There is a paper describing its implementation on multicore machines,
> "Parallel Concurrent ML", available at
>
> http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~jhr/papers/cml.html
>
> And there is a book:
>
> http://books.google.hu/books?id=s309wPE2OoIC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=reppy+concurrent+ml+book&source=bl&ots=uul25UWsPE&sig=G1kohiLaIEB__rEt2TifoD7RseA&hl=hu&ei=y_S3StqBJ5Kj_Aav97C_DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v 
> =onepage&q=&f=false

I ordered a copy .... ;-) Will the "Manticore Concepts" part of sml/nj  
in the future or is it part of the "next reseach language"?
>
> I hope this helps. What would be your project?
>
Two years ago i got interested in arimaa board game and i thinking of  
writing an arimaa bot (www.arimaa.com).
As a studend i spend much time in writing chess and chess-like games  
(in modula-2) ....

Volkert

> - Gergely

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