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@weekend_editor
Exactly! In my case, I landed in the ML pile after having treaded upon assembly, FORTRAN, LISP, C, Pascal, and Smalltalk to varying degrees of shallowness. So, ML was definitely cool.

I bet you had loads of fun during your stint at the ML compiler maker. In those days, I only had access to academic ML compilers, like Cardelli VAX ML.

Today, if we tell a young IT practitioner, "Back in our days, we had to buy compilers", he'd laugh us out of the building, and the town.

@amszmidt