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Gen_server in Ocaml

Note, this post is written against the 2.0.1 version of gen_server Erlang comes with a rich set of small concurrency primitives to make...

23 Dec 2013

Orbitz

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Writing a Planner to solve a tricky programming optimization problem

Suppose a monkey is in one corner of a room, a box is in another corner of a room, and a banana is hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the room. The monkey can’t reach the banana withou…

14 Dec 2013

Richard Jones

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OCamlPro Highlights: November 2013

New Team Members We are pleased to welcome three new members in our OCamlPro team since the beginning of November: Benjamin Canou started working at OCamlPro on the Richelieu project, an effort to bring better safety and performance to the Scilab language. He is in charge of a type inference algorit...

03 Dec 2013

OCamlPro

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Quick, dirty and shallow definitions

Here is a quick hack. A few months ago, I advocated for pointer equality in OCaml (==) as a way to deal with fresh symbols in a toy compiler. Today, I’ll show another application of pointer e…

21 Nov 2013

Matthias Puech

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