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From: lgmayka@sprynet.com (Lawrence G. Mayka)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
Date: 1997/01/25
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Eric Clayberg <clayberg@parcplace.com> wrote:

>Claus Reinke wrote:

>> Try something like Standard ML or Haskell

>When I get the time, I would like to. Are either commercially available?
>If so, where? What about free versions? Thanks.

Harlequin Inc. (http://www.harlequin.com) advertises a commercial
implementation of the 1996 version of Standard ML, a.k.a. SML.  See in
particular http://www.harlequin.com/mlworks/Welcome.html.  You can
apparently download an evaluation copy.

I know Harlequin primarily from their commercial implementations of
ANSI Common Lisp (a.k.a. CLOS), a dynamic object-oriented language
that is in many ways technically superior to Smalltalk.  (I've
programmed in Smalltalk for 6 months now.  Prior to that I programmed
in CLOS for 8 years, and before that in C++ for 4 years.)  Harlequin
is also apparently in the final stages of developing a commercial
implementation of Dylan, the dynamic object-oriented language that
Apple once championed.

Links to all of Harlequin's symbolic processing products appear on
http://www.harlequin.com/full/products/Welcome.html.

I have no affiliation with Harlequin other than as a satisfied
customer (actually not any more, since I write in exclusively in
Smalltalk now, for various reasons).


Lawrence G. Mayka
lgmayka@sprynet.com