Developing Applications With Objective CAML

Developing Applications With Objective CAML - The desire to write a book on Objective CAML sprang from the authors' pedagogical experience in teaching programming concepts through the Objective CAML language. The students in various majors and the engineers in continuing education at Pierre and Marie Curie University have, through their dynamism and their critiques, caused our presentation of the Objective CAML language to evolve greatly. Several examples in this book are directly inspired by their projects. The implementation of the Caml language has been ongoing for fifteen years. Its development comes from the Formel and then Cristal projects at INRIA, in collaboration with Denis Diderot University and the École Normale Supérieure. The continuous efforts of the researchers on these teams, as much to develop the theoretical underpinnings as the implementation itself, have produced over the span of years a language of very high quality. They have been able to keep pace with the constant evolution of the field while integrating new programming paradigms into a formal framework. We hope through this exposition to contribute to the widespread diffusion which this work deserves. Slashdot review of the book.