[MLton] More on parallelism

[skaller]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 15:41 -0500, Matthew Fluet wrote:
> > I have a few questions about the viability of parallelism.  I'm doing 
> > distributed/parallel systems research, and I'd like to use ML as a primary 
> > language.
> 
> That would be great; the conjecture that systems programming could be 
> improved by using high-level languages can always use more support.

Not quite a conjecture .. it's been done at least twice:
Algol and Modula have both been used to implement operating systems.

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