Brendan Zabarauskas on Twitter: "@laurencetratt They aren't really that recent, but there are some nice papers on design issues in Standard ML from the 90s: • “A critique of Standard ML” by Appel: https://t.co/jpisMdKsED • “Reflections on Standard ML” by MacQueen: https://t.co/aTH8guYyDz" / Twitter

What guides do we have for what not to do when designing modern programming languages? counterexamples.org is the biggest example I can think of. After that, I have to fall back on a small number of individual blog posts such as tratt.net/laurie/blog/en. Any suggestions?

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, perhaps? belkadan.com/blog/tags/swif

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They aren't really that recent, but there are some nice papers on design issues in Standard ML from the 90s: • “A critique of Standard ML” by Appel: cambridge.org/core/journals/ • “Reflections on Standard ML” by MacQueen: smlfamily.github.io/papers/MacQuee

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