On Sep 18, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Grant Rettke wrote: > Hi, > > Over the years I've noticed on-list that comments are made about OCaml > and Haskell and abstract data types. > > It seems like it would be fun to learn more about this stuff; and I > guessed that learning SML would be a nice place to start because it is > stable and seemed to be used by educators a lot. > > What do you think? > > Are _ML for the Working Programmer_ and _Elements of ML Programming, > ML97_ a good place to start?
My impression is that ocaml is much more actively developed & maintained that SML. Furthermore, having used both (2-3K in each?), I believe that the only differences you'll encounter early will be ocaml's single semicolon rather than SML's double (or is it the other way?), and SML's top-level pattern-matching. John
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