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Now available on Amazon

OCaml from the Very Beginning (204pp, paperback) is now available on Amazon for $39.99 / €29.99 / £24.99, as well as an e-book from ocaml-book.com for $19.99. Here are preview chapters and a .zip of the examples and exercises .  Here's the blurb:  In OCaml from

07 Jun 2013

OCaml Book

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Optimisations you shouldn’t do

Doing the compiler's work Working at OCamlPro may have some drawbacks. I spend a lot of time hacking the OCaml compiler. Hence when I write some code, I have a good glimpse of what the generated assembly will look like. This is nice when I want to write performance sensitive code, but as I usually w...

24 May 2013

OCamlPro

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malloc() is the new gensym()

Teaching an introductory course to “compilation” this semester (actually it was called Virtual Machines, but it was really about compiling expressions to stack machines), I realized something I had…

04 May 2013

Matthias Puech

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April Monthly Report

This post aims at summarizing the activities of OCamlPro for the past month. As usual, we worked in three main areas: the OCaml toolchain, development tools for OCaml and R&D projects. The toolchain Our multi-runtime implementation of OCaml had gained stability. Luca fixed a lot of low-level bugs in...

22 Apr 2013

OCamlPro

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wxOCaml, camlidl and Class Modules

Last week, I was bored doing some paperwork, so I decided to hack a little to relieve my mind... Looking for a GUI Framework for OCaml Beginners Some time ago, at OCamlPro, we had discussed the fact that OCaml was lacking more GUI frameworks. Lablgtk is powerful, but I don’t like it (and I expect ...

02 Apr 2013

OCamlPro

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An Indentation Engine for OCaml

Since our last activity report we have released the first stable versions of two projects: OPAM, an installation manager for OCaml source packages, and ocp-indent, an indentation tool. We have already described the basics of OPAM in two precedent blog posts, so today we will focus on the release of ...

18 Mar 2013

OCamlPro

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[ANN] Riakc 0.0.0

Note, since writing this post, Riakc 1.0.0 has already been released and merged into opam. It fixes the below issue of Links (there is a t...

17 Mar 2013

Orbitz

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[ANN] Protobuf 0.0.2

Protobuf is an Ocaml library for communicating with Google's protobuf format. It provides a method for writing parsers and builders. Ther...

17 Mar 2013

Orbitz

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OPAM 1.0.0 released

I am very happy to announce the first official release of OPAM! Many of you already know and use OPAM so I won't be long. Please read beta-release-of-opam for a longer description. 1.0.0 fixes many bugs and add few new features to the previously announced beta-release. The most visible new feature, ...

15 Mar 2013

OCamlPro

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