Benefits of OCaml

These web pages detail some interesting information about the benefits of the computer programming language Objective Caml (OCaml).

Contents

• Interactive Top-Level
• Safe
• Type System
• Arithmetic
• Functional Programming
• Exceptions
• Native Lists and Arrays
• Variant Types
• Parametric Polymorphism
• Pattern Matching
• Objects
• Modules and Functors
• Garbage Collection
• Separate Compilation
• Comparison with other languages
• Parsing
• Examples

Further reading

Books

• "OCaml for Scientists" by Jon Harrop gives a practical introduction to the use of OCaml for people new to functional programming.
• "The Objective Caml system" by Xavier Leroy (with Damien Doligez, Jacques Garrigue, Didier Rémy and Jérôme Vouillon) is the official manual and gives a formal description of all of the constructs provided by the OCaml programming language.
• "Developing Applications in Objective Caml" by Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal Manoury and Bruno Pagano, provides a thorough introduction to OCaml with many examples from computer science.

Tutorials

• Using, Understanding, and Unraveling The OCaml Language: From Practice to Theory and vice versa by Didier Rémy
• Introduction to Caml by Scott Smith
• Ocaml Tutorial by Darren Landoll
• Introduction to the Objective Caml Programming Language by Jason Hickey
• A Concise Introduction to Objective Caml by David Matuszek

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