The history of Standard ML
ICFP Video · Talk · YouTube title: 01 The History of Standard ML: Ideas, Principles, Culture
Why it's here
Pointed to in language-history discussions as a good account of how ML and SML came to be.
What it covers
An ICFP 2015 keynote on the history of Standard ML, covering its ideas, principles and culture. It traces ML from Strachey, Landin and Milner through SML's development and its interplay with OCaml.