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OCaml Cheat Sheets

When you are beginning in a new programming language, it is sometimes helpful to have an overview of the documentation, that you can pin on your wall and easily have a look at it while you are programming. Since we couldn’t find such Cheat Sheets, we decided to start writting our own cheat sheets ...

03 Jun 2011

OCamlPro

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Crowdsourcing the syntax

Feedback from Opa testers suggests that we can improve the syntax and make it easier for developers new to Opa to read and write code. We have spent some time both inside the Opa team and with the …

30 May 2011

David Teller

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Cmdliner 0.9.0

27 May 2011

Daniel Bünzli

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A few Opa applications

A few open-source Opa applications, written by beta testers or Opa team members, have been open-sourced in the past few days. Expect a few other releases in the upcoming days/weeks: OpaChat –…

24 May 2011

David Teller

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Unbreaking Scalable Web Development, One Loc at a Time

The Opa platform was created to address the problem of developing secure, scalable web applications. Opa is a commercially supported open-source programming language designed for web, concurrency, …

23 May 2011

David Teller

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OCaml 32bits longval

You will need OCaml 3.11.2 installed on a i686 linux computer. The archive contains: libcamlrun-linux-i686.a ocamlrun-linux-i686 Makefile README The Makefile has two targets: sudo make install will save /usr/bin/ocamlrun and /usr/lib/ocaml/libcamlrun.a in the current directory and replace them with ...

06 May 2011

OCamlPro

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Logic programming in Scala, part 2: backtracking

In the previous post we saw how to write computations in a logic monad, where a “value” is a choice among alternatives, and operating on a ...

30 Apr 2011

Jake Donham

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