Hi, I’m going to work through http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTML/ and http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/ using http://www.smlnj.org/ SLOWLY over MANY MONTHS. The reason is that I’ve never learned a statically typed functional programming language, I feel weak on recursive data type definitions, and I am curious about compiler and interpreter construction. So, I’m looking for a way to learn about all [...]
This project brings Objective Caml into the set of tools which allow to program PIC microcontrollers. (via Anil)
Here is an old post comparing Stalin Scheme to OCaml, among a few other languages. Here is the article on Jon’s page. Stalin seems pretty amazing.
The Enhanced Ocaml Documentation is provided by Hendrik Tews; basically it visually highlights any difference between the previous and current version of the documentation. Here is how he does it: I diff the txt versions of the reference manual and change the html version by hand. For the grammar rule index I use a tool [...]
For an accessible introduction to modern (>= 3.10) Camlp4, you may be interested in Jake Donham’s blog post series “Reading Camlp4″ : http://ambassadortothecomputers.blogspot.com/search/label/camlp4 You will also find valuable (though incomplete) information on the camlp4 wiki : http://brion.inria.fr/gallium/index.php/Camlp4 The older version of camlp4 (< 3.10, now called camlp5) also provides a documentation http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/tutorial-camlp4/index.html , and you [...]
Efforts being made on one of the biggest criticisms of OCaml. (via Caml-list)
Here is how to get Unison running on the iPhone. Nice. Via Sylvain via LinkedIn-Ocaml Developers.
I’m very proud to announce Ocamlnet 3.0.0, a completely overhauled version of Ocamlnet. Wish I had some problems that needed solving with ocamlnet! (via caml-list)
* Favor readers over writers * Create uniform interfaces * Make illegal states unrepresentable * Code for exhaustiveness * Open few modules * Make common errors obvious * Avoid boilerplate * Avoid complex type-hackery * Don’t be puritanical about purity (via janestreet)