OCaml
{{language|OCaml |strength=strong |site=http://ocaml.org |safety=safe |compat=structural |checking=static |parampass=value |gc=yes |LCT=yes}}{{language programming paradigm|Object-oriented}}{{implementation|Caml}} {{language programming paradigm|functional}} {{Codepad}} '''OCaml''' (formerly known as Objective Caml) is the main implementation of the [[Caml]] [[programming language]], created by Xavier Leroy, Jérôme Vouillon, Damien Doligez, Didier Rémy and others in 1996. OCaml is an [[open source]] project managed and principally maintained by INRIA.
OCaml extends the core [[derived from::Caml]] language with [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] constructs.
OCaml's toolset includes an interactive toplevel [[interpreter]], a [[bytecode]] [[compiler]], and an optimizing native code compiler. It has a large standard library that makes it useful for many of the same applications as [[Python]] or [[Perl]], as well as robust modular and object-oriented programming constructs that make it applicable for large-scale software engineering.
OCaml is the successor to [[Caml Light]]. The acronym CAML originally stood for Categorical Abstract Machine Language, although OCaml abandons this abstract machine.
==Citations==
- [[wp:Ocaml|Wikipedia:OCaml]]