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Opa advocacy

Opa advocacy and tutorials have moved to their own, dedicated blog. The topics are now covered by Adam Koprowski. Thanks for handling this, Adam!

28 Aug 2011

David Teller

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Opa on Lambda the Ultimate (and now Slashdot)

There is a nice discussion on Opa on Lambda the Ultimate forums. If you are not familiar with Lambda the Ultimate, know that this is the place for discussing new and exotic programming languages an…

28 Aug 2011

David Teller

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Packing and Functors

We have recently worked on modifying the OCaml system to be able to pack a set of modules within a functor, parameterized on some signatures. This page presents this work, funded by Jane Street. All the patches on this page are provided for OCaml version 3.12.1. Packing Functors Installation of the ...

10 Aug 2011

OCamlPro

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OCaml and Windows

Recently, I have been experimenting wiht OCaml / MSVC running on Windows 7 64bit. I have mainly followed what the OCaml’s README.win32 was saying and I learned some NSIS tricks. The result of this experiment is the following two (rather big) windows binaries : ocaml-trunk-64-installer.exe (92 MB) ...

23 Jun 2011

OCamlPro

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Logic programming in Scala, part 3: unification and state

In this post I want to build on the backtracking logic monad we covered last time by adding unification , yielding an embedded DSL for Prol...

09 Jun 2011

Jake Donham

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Listing Opa applications

Short update The opalang website now lists applications developed in Opa (registration required – part of the closed preview). If you are developing an application in Opa, please consider sub…

07 Jun 2011

David Teller

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