[MLton] Trip Report -- Commercial Users of Functional
Programming
Raymond Racine
rracine@adelphia.net
Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:13:47 -0400
Though, obviously, I was not there, I have and do use SML/NJ and now
MLton to do some utilities in a commercial environment. While its not a
secret, its not sanctioned either. I have freedom to do what I do.
The current suite of (simple) tools involve creating an "architectural
reconstruction" of a 1.6 million RPG/COBOL code base. Its not near as
fancy as it sounds.
I extract "facts" from the code base as N3 triples. Then I feed the
data into a Rete which has some simple productions that add a bit more
data. Finally I dump the mess into a DB and query in an ad hoc manner.
Ray
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 17:58, Stephen Weeks wrote:
> > Were there any SML users?
>
> Other than me, sadly not. At least not currently. Galois did use
> SML for one of their early projects where the CKit came in handy. But
> they're pretty much a Haskell shop these days.
>
> I of course mentioned the wonders of MLton/SML to those who would
> listen. :-)
>
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