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pjmlp on Jan 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bootstrapping a Compiler

ML was created for the LCF theorem prover, not for writing compilers.

It is just a nice side effect that functional programming, as well as, logic programming, make it so easy to write compilers.

seanmcdirmid on Jan 17, 2015 [–]

Does ML have any logic programming capabilities beyond algebraic pattern matching?

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