I wish you all a very merry christmas

Back when I was at the university we had a course called “Programming languages”, there we learned a little something about a lot of known and less known programming languages. One of these languages was Standard ML, and I remember that I was quite fascinated with that language, it was so different from everything else we had learned. Since then the functional languages have become a bit more common, with Erlang, F#, Clojure, Scala and Haskell as some examples (more functional languages can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Functional_languages). I have not used any functional languages since then and I thought I would just briefly refresh my memory by installing Standard ML and try the most basics of the language.

Installation

In a previous post I wrote about my new life running on a MacBook Pro and OSX. It has now been over a month since I switch over to this unix hybrid, and I am quite liking it. It is very stable, I almost never turn off my mac, but I put it to sleep, this is working fine and my last reboot is over two weeks ago. I have also gotten used to some of the new weird keys on the keyboard and the shortcuts, but I am not yet as efficent on a mac as I am/were on ubuntu/windows. During the last few weeks I have discovered that Apple and other in most cases provide me with the applications I need, but not always, and here is the list of applications I really miss: