Real World OCaml: Functional programming for the masses

About this book

This fast-moving tutorial introduces you to OCaml an industrial-strength programming language designed for expressiveness safety and speed. Through the books many examples youll quickly learn how OCaml stands out as a tool for writing fast succinct and readable systems code. Real World OCaml takes you through the concepts of the language at a brisk pace and then helps you explore the tools and techniques that make OCaml an effective and practical tool. In the books third section youll delve deep into the details of the compiler toolchain and OCamls simple and efficient runtime system. Learn the foundations of the language such as higher-order functions algebraic data types and modules Explore advanced features such as functors first-class modules and objects Leverage Core a comprehensive general-purpose standard library for OCaml Design effective and reusable libraries making the most of OCamls approach to abstraction and modularity Tackle practical programming problems from command-line parsing to asynchronous network programming Examine profiling and interactive debugging techniques with tools such as GNU gdb