• Title: Real World OCaml: Functional Programming for the Masses
• Author(s) Yaron Minsky, Anil Madhavapeddy, Jason Hickey
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media (2013); eBook (2nd Edition, 2021, Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US
• Hardcover/Paperback: 510 pages
• eBook: HTML
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 144932391X
• ISBN-13: 978-1449323912
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Book Description

Learn how to solve day-to-day problems in data processing, numerical computation, system scripting, and database-driven web applications with the OCaml multi-paradigm programming language. This hands-on book shows you how to take advantage of OCaml's functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles with recipes for many real-world tasks.

You'll start with OCaml basics, including how to set up a development environment, and move toward more advanced topics such as the module system, foreign-function interface, macro language, and the ocamlbuild system. Quickly learn how to put OCaml to work for writing succinct and readable code.

• Yaron Minsky heads the Technology group at Jane Street, a proprietary trading firm that is the largest industrial user of OCaml. He was responsible for introducing OCaml to the company and for managing the company's transition to using OCaml for all of its core infrastructure.
• Anil Madhavapeddy is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, based in the Systems Research Group. He was on the original team that developed the Xen hypervisor, and helped develop an industry-leading cloud management toolstack written entirely in OCaml.
• Jason Hickey is a Software Engineer at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California. He is part of the team that designs and develops the global computing infrastructure used to support Google services, including the software systems for managing and scheduling massively distributed computing resources.

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