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Yaron Minsky heads the Technology group at Jane Street, a proprietary trading firm that is the largest industrial user of OCaml. He was responsible for introducing OCaml to the company and for managing the company's transition to using OCaml for all of its core infrastructure. Today, billions of dollars worth of securities transactions flow each day through those systems. Yaron obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, where he studied distributed systems. Yaron has lectured, blogged and written about OCaml for years, with articles published in Communications of the ACM and the Journal of Functional Programming. He chairs the steering committee of the Commercial Users of Functional Programming, and is a member of the steering committee for the International Conference on Functional Programming.
Anil Madhavapeddy is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, based in the Systems Research Group. He was on the original team that developed the Xen hypervisor, and helped develop an industry-leading cloud management toolstack written entirely in OCaml. This XenServer product has been deployed on hundreds of thousands of physical hosts, and drives critical infrastructure for many Fortune 500 companies. Prior to obtaining his PhD in 2006 from the University of Cambridge, Anil had a diverse background in industry at Network Appliance, NASA and Internet Vision. In addition to professional and academic activities, he is an active member of the open-source development community with the OpenBSD operating system, is co-chair of the Commercial Uses of Functional Programming workshop, and serves on the boards of startup companies such as Ashima Arts where OCaml is extensively used.
Jason Hickey is a Software Engineer at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California. He is part of the team that designs and develops the global computing infrastructure used to support Google services, including the software systems for managing and scheduling massively distributed computing resources. Prior to joining Google, Jason was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Caltech, where his research was in reliable and fault-tolerant computing systems, including programming language design, formal methods, compilers, and new models of distributed computation. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, where he studied programming languages. He is the author of the MetaPRL system, a logical framework for design and analysis of large software systems; OMake, an advanced build system for large software projects. He is the author of the textbook, An Introduction to Objective Caml (unpublished).
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- Paperback: 510 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media (November 22, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 144932391X
- ISBN-13: 978-1449323912
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 1.2 inches
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Free Real World OCaml: Functional programming for the masses
Beginners in OCaml will probably want to peruse Whitington first-- OCaml from the Very Beginning before buying this wonderful text. The format is a fast paced "tutorial" covering all the major, including advanced, functions of OCaml. I'm an old Lisp and current Haskell programmer, and this book really opened my eyes about OCaml beyond academia. Google's using it for systems, big data and domain projects. One of the authors uses it as the main engine for a trading platform. In short, this fascinating hybrid is finding many more applications beyond software engineering education. And like other functionals, its math abilities are awesome.
The text has O'reilly's quality and the code, even for a brand new work, is nearly flawless. I was frankly unfamiliar with Core, the largest OCaml library, which is why I have preferred the Haskell community, APIs, libraries and SDKs for a long time. No longer! I'm a functional programmer at heart, but to survive today you have to pick up Java, C#, Python, etc. Amazingly (to me, you probably knew this), OCaml has a very cool "imperative" engine in addition to its native functional design. The authors get right into opening Core first as if you were laying an SDK or IDE foundation with that library-- meaning you don't have to spend hours on the web before trying the hundreds of examples.
The "dual nature" or hybrid (imperative and functional) also means you can pick a seminal topic like recursion, for example, and build a loop function just like you would in Haskell. OR, in addition to native functional recursion, you can also use an imperative loop structure such as FOR or WHILE.
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