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		seanmcdirmid on Jan 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Tour of Standard ML I thought the M stood for module?

cvik on Jan 29, 2020 [–]

Nah, It's Meta (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML).

SideNote: I have a friend though, who used it for almost 15 years and thought the M stood for Math before we spook about this.

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