From: costello@mitre.org   
      
   Hello Compiler Experts!   
      
   The book [1] that I started reading says this:   
      
   	ML is well suited to many applications,   
   	but compiler implementation in particular   
   	seems to hit all of its strong points and   
   	few of its weaknesses. Implementing a   
   	compiler in ML is quite a pleasant task.   
      
   What is it about ML that makes it such a good language for implementing   
   compilers?   
      
   The book was written in the 90's. Are there new languages that are even better   
   than ML as a compiler implementation language?   
      
   /Roger   
      
   [1] "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML" by Andrew W. Appel   
   (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/basic/ml/extract.pdf)   
      
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