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My Thoughts on OCaml From the Very Beginning


My Thoughts on OCaml From the Very Beginning

It is very basic and never goes much much into depth: the first chapter is about literals, there is one about lists, some basic pattern matching ...

Review of OCaml from the Very Beginning - Adam Tornhill

Today, functional programming presents such a challenge to a whole generation of object-oriented programmers. With its no-prerequisites approach, OCaml from the ...

Book: OCaml from the Very Beginning - Reddit

From the looks of it this book is going to be closer to Practical OCaml than to RWO. Seems like it only teaches the very basics. You can learn ...

Review: OCaml from the Very Beginning - Inching Forward

TLDR: This is a great first book to get your feet wet with OCaml. The first thing that jumps out at you is the succint writing. Simple words ...

My thoughts on OCaml - Hacker News

I don't the author really gave Ocaml a chance. He argues that every language needs to have interfaces. I agree somewhat with that statement, ...

We need to stop recommending Real World OCaml as introduction text

Additionally, the book really dives deep into many things about OCaml that you don't often see in introductory text, like the runtime ...

OCaml at First Glance - Learning

TLDR; I can't say that my initial experience with OCaml was mind-blowing, but it was definitely pleasant and with time the language grows on me.

In praise of ocaml - Community

Speaking of Haskell, navigating others codebases is just so easy. The language is very intuitive, and with my basic knowledge of monads I am ...

First Thoughts on OCaml - Charlie Marsh

N.B.: I wrote this post a few weeks after first using OCaml. Before that, 90% of my programing had been in Java. Looking back on these notes, perhaps a more ...

Why did you learn OCaml? - Community

It improved my programming skills and it's now my go to language for most scripting. Every now and then you'll get quizzical looks when you ...

OCaml from the Very Beginning: Amazon.co.uk: Whitington, John

OCaml from the Very Beginning will appeal both to new programmers, and experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as OCaml. It is ...

Blog: General thoughts on Ocaml & Haskell and OCaml's ...

In comparison, the OCaml code seems pretty much what a non-expert might end up writing. Haskell tends to be very succinct but most of the ...

My thoughts on OCaml | Lobsters

The interface issue is kind of a thing, but you can either use objects, first-class modules, or go C-style with a record of functions. This is a ...

OCaml - First Impression [Programming Languages Episode 8]

... most successful functional ... Ocaml First Thoughts. ThePrimeTime•60K views · 29:31 · Go to channel · Just enough assembly to blow your mind.

OCaml from the Very Beginning by John Whitington | Goodreads

In OCaml from the Very Beginning John Whitington takes a no-prerequisites approach to teaching a modern general-purpose programming language ...

First thoughts on Rust vs OCaml - Darklang

Not only that, but there's lots aimed at beginners; often it feels like OCaml blog posts are aimed at hardened professionals or academics. I ...

Should I Haskell or OCaml? - Hacker News

Haskell is probably the most different being a lazy functional language. Definitely learn it but using it in real life will be harder.

OCaml from the Very Beginning - John Whitington - Amazon.sg

OCaml from the Very Beginning will appeal both to new programmers, and experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as OCaml. It is ...

me/007-My-Thoughts-on-OCaml-vs-Haskell-Rust-2023.md at master

Here Rust simply excels and wins hands down, so I use the Rust language instead. Systems programming goes really well with linear types. Now ...

OCaml from the Very Beginning

OCaml from the Very Beginning will appeal both to new programmers, and experienced programmers eager to explore functional languages such as OCaml. It is ...