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by lefessan 26d ago
This book is a great. A common misunderstanding around OCaml is to classify it as a functional programming language, it is actually a multi-paradigm language. In short, in OCaml, you can write in any paradigm you want, imperative, object, o
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by lefessan 2y ago
You can find videos on Youtube, it's like an IDE where you would do everything in a user interface with menus, but the interface is a 25x80-char screen only :-) Everything is "almost" similar to a Unix system, but with differ
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by lefessan 2y ago
The goal of SuperBOL ( https://superbol.eu ) is to allow companies to migrate from mainframes to Linux workstations, to get a "modern" experience of development and deployment. Indeed, mainframes are hard to get access t
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by lefessan 2y ago
We are among the major contributors to GnuCOBOL, we use https://github.com/OCamlPro/gnucobol to review our contributions before pushing them on the SVN of Sourceforge. Cobolworx is indeed working on a gcc frontend for
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by lefessan 2y ago
COBOL is not dead, but it's difficult to get access to, because there is almost no open-source tooling around it for Linux. We (OCamlPro) have created a project, called SuperBOL, to create an open-source environment around the GnuCOBOL
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by lefessan 3y ago
Who said COBOL was not trendy ? A new version of the COBOL ISO standard was released this year (January 2023) A brand new stable release 3.2 of the free open-source compiler GnuCOBOL was released this summer (July 2023) OCamlPro is working
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Autofonce, GNU Autotests Revisited(ocamlpro.com)
15 points by lefessan 3y ago|0 comments
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Blog Post on “The Growth of the OCaml Distribution”(ocamlpro.com)
5 points by lefessan 4y ago|1 comments
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by lefessan 4y ago
We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (co
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Learn a New Programming Language: Online Course on OCaml Starts This October(france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr)
1 points by lefessan 11y ago|0 comments
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by lefessan 15y ago
You are comparing different things. OCaml strength is safety, it verifies at compile time that your program is safe, correct apart algorithmic errors. Once it compiles, you are almost sure it is going to work. Go does not give any such guar