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Subject: Re: scripting/extension language for Ada (was : Re: tagged types
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In article <881hft$9ac1@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> Given SML-NJ, what would it take for a ML shell besides some shell
> functions that could be written in ML? I.e. would just a ML library
> turn SML-NJ into what you're looking for?

I don't know. I suppose I would have to learn ML properly.

Most lisps have decent macro systems with which one can write embedded
languages fairly easily, allowing one to use, for example, a nice
process invocation syntax. Can ML do this sort of thing?

Ray Blaak
blaak@infomatch.com


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