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Standard ML (SML) is a safe, modular, strict, functional,
polymorphic programming language with compile-time type checking
and type inference, garbage collection, exception handling,
immutable data types and updatable references, abstract data types,
and parametric modules. It has efficient implementations and a
formal definition with a proof of soundness.

Standard ML of New Jersey (abbreviated SML/NJ) is a compiler for
the Standard ML '97 programming language with associated libraries,
tools, and documentation.

WWW: http://www.smlnj.org/