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31 <div class="paragraph"><p>ML stands for <em>meta language</em>. ML was originally designed in the
32 1970s as a programming language to assist theorem proving in the logic
33 LCF. In the 1980s, ML split into two variants,
34 <a href="StandardML">Standard ML</a> and <a href="OCaml">OCaml</a>, both of which are still used
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