ML dialects for JVM

Hello Everyone,

Are there any promosing projects for ML dialects for the Java VM?

I could find the page for MLJ but it is only at version 0.2.
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mlj/

In the dotnet world there is F#.
http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.aspx

Maybe you know any other languages simular to ML for the JVM?

I am sorry if this message is offtopic.

Best regards!
Sander hahn

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:12:55 +0000 (UTC), Hahn S <shahn@kits.cs.vu.nl> wrote:
> I could find the page for MLJ but it is only at version 0.2.
> http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mlj/

Do not fall for that. Some projects like to approach the version
numbering scheme a bit differently than others. I've seen:

The ''classical'' GNU-style: x.y.z, where x is major version number, y
is minor version number and z is the patch level. Some even takes a
fourth ''minor-patch-level'' insignia too.

The approach to 1. It might be that version 1 is considered the finished
version with all the features the authors had planned for in the first
place. If these features are eg. CML you might be able to use version
0.2 without any problems.

The approach to pi (3.14...). I know at least 1 project which does this.
Every version adds a more precise approximation to pi.

So the conclusion is: Check the project yourself. It is not the project
number but the designers and programmers that count in a project.

That said, I have not yet tried MLJ. I suspect they will have the usual
problems with Java (tail-call optimizations, etc).

--
Jesper