[MLton] Trip Report -- Commercial Users of Functional Programming

[Raymond Racine]

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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