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Author: Yaron Minsky
ISBN : B00GG21E2O
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This fast-moving tutorial introduces you to OCaml, an industrial-strength programming language designed for expressiveness, safety, and speed. Through the book’s many examples, you’ll quickly learn how OCaml stands out as a tool for writing fast, succinct, and readable systems code.
Real World OCaml takes you through the concepts of the language at a brisk pace, and then helps you explore the tools and techniques that make OCaml an effective and practical tool. In the book’s third section, you’ll delve deep into the details of the compiler toolchain and OCaml’s simple and efficient runtime system.
- Learn the foundations of the language, such as higher-order functions, algebraic data types, and modules
- Explore advanced features such as functors, first-class modules, and objects
- Leverage Core, a comprehensive general-purpose standard library for OCaml
- Design effective and reusable libraries, making the most of OCaml’s approach to abstraction and modularity
- Tackle practical programming problems from command-line parsing to asynchronous network programming
- Examine profiling and interactive debugging techniques with tools such as GNU gdb
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- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (November 4, 2013)
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- Language: English
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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.