Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition: Covering 14.10 and 15.04, Tenth Edition

OCaml

Functional programming never really goes away. Sometimes the most elegant way to write something is not by using a class or a method or a framework. Sometimes, the most elegant implementation is simply a function. This is why Lisp endures and why newer languages like OCaml and Haskell appear. Well, we say “appear,” but in reality OCaml is a modern dialect of a very old functional language called ML, which was developed in the early 1970s. OCaml is used primarily, but not exclusively, in the financial world, in programs for electronic trading, markets, and investments. It has an advanced type system and supports not only functional, but also imperative and object-oriented styles of programming. It includes a memory manager and incremental ...