Unix System programming in OCaml
It is my pleasure to announce that Xavier Leroy and Didier Rémy’s course on Unix system programming in Objective Caml is now available in english at this address :
http://ocamlunix.forge.ocamlcore.org/
If you had a look at the individual publications of the chapters announced on the project feed you may want to have a look again: some parts of the text were improved and a few translation errors were corrected in the final version.
This course looks like a lot of fun!
(via caml-list)
OASIS: A Cabal-like build system for OCaml
This is the first public release of OASIS. It aims to provide a clean and efficient way to create a configure/build and install system for your OCaml applications and libraries using a single ‘_oasis’ file.
It uses OCamlbuild, or whatever you prefer (Makefiles), rather than replacing them.
(via caml-list)
High-level bindings between OCaml and C#
Functional reactive programming in OCaml with froc
(via Jake via ocaml-list)
Emacs 23.2 is out
Is OCaml's standard library its weakest link?
In this post I read that:
OCaml’s standard library is one of its weakest parts. Always use extensions to the std library.
Searching around the net I find ExtLib, Batteries, and Janestreet.
I’m not sure what “weakest link” meant in the original post so I will leave it wide open for any concerns that people have. Perhaps it means that it does not have enough functionality? Or slow? Or there is something odd about the APIs?
It is true that OCaml’s standard library is its weakest link?
The beginnings of Scheme on the Wii
The beginnings of Scheme on the Wii via Gambit and the efforts of Sean Charles are discussed here.
What are you favorite PhD candidate online communities?
Sometimes good company can be the difference between reaching your goals and failing to do so.
I’m wondering what online communities people find value in on their path to obtaining their PhDs?
Search engine for LaTeX equations
Provided by Springer here.
Unlike other LaTeX sites that provide code specifically for equation names; this seems to be a search engine for the LaTeX source of papers they have collected.