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In article <1991May8.003016.5333@newshost.anu.edu.au> rjm@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Robert J. McArthur) writes:
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>Are there any "nice" environments for ML development?  Public domain?
>X based?

I know of two make systems.  Poly/ML has a built-in make system.  Nick
Rothwell has written a portable make system, which is included in the new
release of the Edinburgh SML library, and will be included with the next
distributions of the three major compilers.

Poplog ML supports X (via calls to Pop-11, I think).  Poly/ML currently
supports Suntools; the next release will support X.  They don't have
window based programming environments, just facilities to maniuplate windows
from SML.  SML/NJ, or rather CML (concurrent ML), has a window system in
development, but I don't know when it will be released.  There's another
commercial system being developed which will have a sophisticated
environment, but that's not available yet.

SML/NJ is free (though not public domain).  Both Poly/ML and Poplog are
commercial products with substantial discounts to academics.  Each system
has various advantages and disadvantages beyond those mentioned here.

Dave.
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 Dave Berry, LFCS, Edinburgh Uni.      db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

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