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		bmacho on Nov 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 15-150: Principles of Functional Programming Why would they use a Lisp dialect instead of Standard ML? It looks ugly, it looks different from math, and different concepts have the same syntax. Standard ML looks nice, it looks like math, and different concepts have different syntax.

SomeRndName11 on Nov 20, 2023 [–]

No, SML is actually quite verbose ang generally ugly, compared to say OCaml or F#, or even Scheme or Closure. This is why it is dead.

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