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<p>ML stands for <em>meta language</em>.  ML was originally designed in the
1970s as a programming language to assist theorem proving in the logic
LCF.  In the 1980s, ML split into two variants,
<a href="StandardML">Standard ML</a> and <a href="OCaml">OCaml</a>, both of which are still used
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Last updated Thu Oct 21 15:53:06 2021 -0400 by Matthew Fluet.
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