The OCaml Planet

Distributing OCaml software on opam is great (if I dare say so myself), but sometimes you need to provide your tools to an audience outside of the OCaml community, or just without recompilations or in a simpler way. However, just distributing the locally generated binaries requires that the users ha...

James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this episode, James and Ron talk about the role of technical writing in an organization like Jane Street, and how engineering software relates to editing prose. Some links to topics that came up in the discussion: mdx, the modified Markdown format that supports executing OCaml code blocks: https://github.com/realworldocaml/mdx More on the 4 types of technical writing that James references: https://documentation.divio.com/introduction/ Donald Knuth’s original book on Literate Programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming More on John McPhee’s use of KEDIT: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work: https://codersatwork.com/ David Goodsell’s The Machinery of Life: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Machinery_of_Life.html?id=0nV-mIqPa5gC Scott Huler’s Defining the Wind: https://books.google.com/books?id=oqGUXPWbieMC Some of James’s writing on our tech blog: https://blog.janestreet.com/author/jsomers/ You can find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at signalsandthreads.com.

James Somers is Jane Street’s writer-in-residence, splitting his time between English and OCaml, and helping to push forward all sorts of efforts around knowledge-sharing at Jane Street. In this episode, James and Ron talk about the role of technical writing in an organization like Jane Street, and how engineering software relates to editing prose. Some links to topics that came up in the discussion: mdx, the modified Markdown format that supports executing OCaml code blocks: https://github.com/realworldocaml/mdx More on the 4 types of technical writing that James references: https://documentation.divio.com/introduction/ Donald Knuth’s original book on Literate Programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming More on John McPhee’s use of KEDIT: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work: https://codersatwork.com/ David Goodsell’s The Machinery of Life: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Machinery_of_Life.html?id=0nV-mIqPa5gC Scott Huler’s Defining the Wind: https://books.google.com/books?id=oqGUXPWbieMC Some of James’s writing on our tech blog: https://blog.janestreet.com/author/jsomers/ You can find the transcript for this episode and all past episodes at signalsandthreads.com.

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