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		Koshkin on Feb 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix System Programming with Standard ML (2001) [p... ML is a general-purpose programming language, and as such its use case cannot be narrowly specified. (They say it's good for writing compilers, but I wouldn't latch on that.)

icedchai on Feb 5, 2020 [–]

He asked if it was used in industry. This can be answered by looking at job postings or TIOBE.

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