From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200101022108.QAA00865@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] SML for Plan 9?
In-Reply-To: <009c01c074ea$01d74bb0$62356887@HWTPC>
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Date: Tue,  2 Jan 2001 16:08:33 -0500
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In article <009c01c074ea$01d74bb0$62356887@HWTPC> you write:
>There was an SML/NJ port to Plan 9 for the MIPS and Sparc architectures
>(done by Sean Dorward, and continued by me for a while), but never one for
>the x86 architecture.  There is a fair amount of work involved in doing a
>port (dealing with different assembly language formats, reconciling
>different calling conventions) and the port fell into disuse about 5 years
>ago when I stopped working on a project that used SML.

Thanks Howard.  Looks like I might be out of luck for now.
The Acme paper mentions someone who really digs Acme but
programs almost eclusively in SML, might that be you?

Perhaps one of the other ML implementations would be somewhat
easier to port under the APE....  Thanks again.

	- Dan C.