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OCaml and Windows

Recently, I have been experimenting wiht OCaml / MSVC running on Windows 7 64bit. I have mainly followed what the OCaml’s README.win32 was saying and I learned some NSIS tricks. The result of this experiment is the following two (rather big) windows binaries : ocaml-trunk-64-installer.exe (92 MB) ...

23 Jun 2011

OCamlPro

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Logic programming in Scala, part 3: unification and state

In this post I want to build on the backtracking logic monad we covered last time by adding unification , yielding an embedded DSL for Prol...

09 Jun 2011

Jake Donham

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Listing Opa applications

Short update The opalang website now lists applications developed in Opa (registration required – part of the closed preview). If you are developing an application in Opa, please consider sub…

07 Jun 2011

David Teller

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OCaml Cheat Sheets

When you are beginning in a new programming language, it is sometimes helpful to have an overview of the documentation, that you can pin on your wall and easily have a look at it while you are programming. Since we couldn’t find such Cheat Sheets, we decided to start writting our own cheat sheets ...

03 Jun 2011

OCamlPro

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Crowdsourcing the syntax

Feedback from Opa testers suggests that we can improve the syntax and make it easier for developers new to Opa to read and write code. We have spent some time both inside the Opa team and with the …

30 May 2011

David Teller

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Cmdliner 0.9.0

27 May 2011

Daniel Bünzli

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A few Opa applications

A few open-source Opa applications, written by beta testers or Opa team members, have been open-sourced in the past few days. Expect a few other releases in the upcoming days/weeks: OpaChat –…

24 May 2011

David Teller

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Unbreaking Scalable Web Development, One Loc at a Time

The Opa platform was created to address the problem of developing secure, scalable web applications. Opa is a commercially supported open-source programming language designed for web, concurrency, …

23 May 2011

David Teller

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