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It’s a 28 year old project.

Some of the same people bounced around implementing it in different places, but they started from scratch each time.

Some things to search for:

JP Morgan Athena BofA Quartz Kirat Singh Mark Higgins

Full respect to this piece for including the phrase “the simplest possible thing”.

I get the following banner:

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The subject does sometimes come up in my casual conversations, since Robin Milner was my first CS lecturer.

He never actually spoke about type inference in my presence. He did teach me CCS (pi-calculus predecessor) a couple of years later, by which time I could appreciate him.

Why? Bad management. Perhaps even bad leadership.

Amazing achievement.

I did some work for Apricot at their Glenrothes factory around 1985-87. In my memory they went heavier on GEM than Windows. I never saw an Apricot running Windows prior to the PC-compatible models.

Matt Godbolt was saying recently that using tail-calls for an interpreter suits the branch predictor inside the cpu. Compared to a single big switch / computed jump.