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