From: "Andrew Koenig" <ark-mlist@comcast.net>
To: <gdiaz@qswarm.com>, <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] sml/nj and unix/plan9
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 10:58:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00aa01d6247f$f1cb08f0$d5611ad0$@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3740275.SCiKnK0d8l@slayer.slackware.es>
> Was sml/nj part of UNIX at some point? was it considered as a language to
use
> (proof tools may be)?
>
> I was wondering if there is any history in common between the two. I've
been
> unable to find anything :-?, please share your stories! :-D
>
> Is it true that the language was too slow to be generally useful? There
seems to be
> commentaries along these lines on the internet.
To my knowledge, sml/nj was never part of the Unix distribution, though it
was definitely available thereon (and also on SunOS). One of the main people
behind SML/NJ was Dave MacQueen, who was in the same general organization as
the Unix people.
As for sml/nj being too slow to be generally useful, Rob Pike (I think) once
wrote a desk-calculator program in C. I took that program and rewrote it in
sml/nj. Compared to the C version, it ran about twice as slowly and the
source code was about half the size. So no, I don't think sml/nj was slow.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-07 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-04 12:39 gdiaz
2020-05-07 14:58 ` Andrew Koenig [this message]
2020-05-07 17:40 ` Dan Cross
2020-05-07 20:47 ` A. P. Garcia
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