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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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Why is virt-builder written in OCaml?

Docker is written in Go. virt-builder is written in OCaml. Why? (Or as someone at work asked me — apparently seriously — why did you write it in a language which only you can use?) Virt…

11 Nov 2013

Richard Jones

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OPAM 1.1.0 released

After a while staged as RC, we are proud to announce the final release of OPAM 1.1.0! Thanks again to those who have helped testing and fixing the last few issues. Important note The repository format has been improved with incompatible new features; to account for this, the new repository is now ho...

08 Nov 2013

OCamlPro

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OCamlPro Highlights, Sept-Oct 2013

Here is a short report of our activities in September-October 2013. OCamlPro at OCaml’2013 in Boston We were very happy to participate to OCaml’2013, in Boston. The event was a great success, with a lot of interesting talks and many participants. It was a nice opportunity for us to present some ...

01 Nov 2013

OCamlPro

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Third OCaml compiler hacking session

30 Oct 2013

OCaml Labs compiler hacking

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New draft on Normalization by Evaluation using GADTs

There is a new draft on my web page! It is called Tagless and Typeful Normalization by Evaluation using Generalized Algebraic Data Types, which is a mouthful, but only describes accurately the cool…

29 Oct 2013

Matthias Puech

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Reprinting of "OCaml from the Very Beginning"

Owing to the print-on-demand process we're using, it's simple to update the book to fix the few errata which have been pointed out by kind readers since publication. The new text is now live on Amazon , the Kindle Store , and our website .  To update the Kindle copy, go to "Manage

15 Oct 2013

OCaml Book

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OPAM 1.1.0 release candidate out

OPAM 1.1.0 is ready, and we are shipping a release candidate for packagers and all interested to try it out. This version features several bug-fixes over the September beta release, and quite a few stability and usability improvements. Thanks to all beta-testers who have taken the time to file repor...

14 Oct 2013

OCamlPro

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