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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
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Subject: OCaml vs SML
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 04:44:48 +0000
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I just stumbled upon this rather enlightening comparison between the features 
of OCaml and SML:

  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~adamc/mlcomp/

Pretty much the only thing I envy from SML is equality types, and I think F# 
has a better solution to that problem...

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e