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The closest is probably MLton, a compiler for Standard ML.
by tsuyoshi 12y ago
The closest is probably MLton, a compiler for Standard ML.
- jessaustin 12y agoNamed, I'm assuming, for John Milton? That so-called poet and all-around horrible person that even Samuel Johnson considered an "acrimonious and surly republican"? It's his Paradise Lost we have to thank for the scourge of "blank verse"! Oh, the humanity! Also he supported and served under Cromwell, of all people! Surely we can throw this horribly-named compiler on the dustpile of computer science history!?
- maxharris 12y agoMilton never murdered between 20 and 60 million people.
- _delirium 12y agoOnly because there weren't that many people in the vicinity! A large portion of those who did have the misfortune to be there got killed, though; estimates are that about 15-25% of the Irish population was killed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Irelan...
- zorked 12y agoPretty sure it was a joke.
- bachmeier 12y agoStandard ML is not a dynamic language.
- peterfirefly 12y agoNo, but it does whole-program optimization.