ML (Meta Language) is a family of statically-typed functional programming languages designed for type safety and program verification. It introduced polymorphic type inference with the Hindley-Milner type system, making it influential in programming language theory and functional programming.
functional, purely functional, imperative, structured
formal verification, mathematics, education
pattern matching, algebraic data types, type inference, first-class functions, closures, pure functions, modules
static system, structural typing, strong typing, full inference, compile-time checking, none type coercion, optional type annotations
compiled
ml, mli
Status | active |
Type | programming |
Created | 1973 |
Designed by | Robin Milner |
PyPL Index | N/A |
TIOBE Index | #46 |
GitHub rank | N/A |