OCaml

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OCaml
ParadigmMulti-paradigm: functional, imperative, modular,[1] object-oriented
FamilyML
Designed byXavier Leroy, Jérôme Vouillon, Damien Doligez, Didier Rémy, Ascánder Suárez
DeveloperINRIA
First appeared1996; 28 years ago (1996)
Stable release5.1.1[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 8 December 2023; 3 months ago (8 December 2023)
Typing disciplineInferred, static, strong, structural
Implementation languageOCaml, C
PlatformIA-32, x86-64, Power, SPARC, ARM 32-64
OSCross-platform: Unix, macOS, Windows
LicenseLGPLv2.1
Filename extensions.ml, .mli
Websiteocaml.org
Influenced by
C, Caml, Modula-3, Pascal, Standard ML
Influenced
ATS, Coq, Elm, F#, F*, Haxe, Opa, Rust, Scala

Objective Caml (OCaml) is a programming language which is a dialect of ML (programming language). It extends the Caml language so object-oriented programming can be used.

Bibliography[change | change source]

  • Whitington, John (2013). OCaml from the Very Beginning. Coherent Press. ISBN 9780957671102.

References[change | change source]

  1. "Modules". Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  2. "OCaml 5.1.1 Release Notes". Retrieved 27 December 2023.

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