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alegrn

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    Comment #11694844

    Couldn't find any official changelog. Biggest feature of this release seems to be 64bit multicore programming. My experience with this release so far: - installation on ubuntu 16.0…

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    Comment #8834431

    Just have played with it. It was unexpectedly easy to use and it generated impressive small and fast executables. Very nice.

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    Comment #8315202

    Of course, You are absolutely right. The author said he had no idea how to value his work and I was thinking... Hmm, he might try to use financial math formulas such as the NPV as …

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    Comment #8314862

    Sure. The given assumed discount rate of 3% was just meant as an example.

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    Comment #8314757

    Nope, my post was just meant as some random fact. You can easily put a price on an infinite stream of constant payments. I don't believe the project is able to generate an infinite…

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    Comment #8314714

    Here is some math: The formular for the present value of a perpetuity is just present_value := cashflow / discount_rate Given 750$ per month (9000$ per year) and a 3% annual discou…

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    Comment #6074701

    Although SML is such a beautiful and pragmatic language and has many Compilers and Runtimes, I am not aware of any real world projects with impact other than the well-known SML com…

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    Comment #6074619

    SML# is one of the lesser known SML implementations, although it's a quite good one. The only thing that I found impractical,... you can only link 32bit libs, which is very odd on …