1998-07-28 06:25:43 +00:00
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Caml is a strongly-typed functional programming language from the
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ML family, close to Standard ML but slightly different.
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1999-05-03 06:13:27 +00:00
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WWW: http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/index-eng.html
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1998-07-28 06:25:43 +00:00
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The Caml Light system comprises the following parts:
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- An interactive system, based on a read-eval-print loop.
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- A batch compiler and linker, `camlc'. The compiler
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produces standalone executable programs.
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- A medium-sized standard library.
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- A tool to build libraries of frequently-used program modules.
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- A parser generator and a lexical analyzer generator, in the
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style of lex and yacc.
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- Various programming tools:
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- A source-level debugger with replay capabilities (``time travel'').
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- An hypertext browser for modules.
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- A simple Emacs editing mode, plus the ability to run the
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- toplevel or the debugger under Emacs.
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- Search by types on modules.
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- Several interface libraries:
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- Portable graphic primitives (simple line and text drawings).
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- Interface with the Unix system calls.
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- Arbitrary-precision rational arithmetic (extremely efficient).
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- High-level string operations (regular expressions, ...).
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