Section: Software and Platforms

OCaml

Participants : Damien Doligez [correspondant] , Alain Frisch [LexiFi] , Jacques Garrigue [Nagoya University] , Fabrice Le Fessant, Xavier Leroy, Luc Maranget.

OCaml, formerly known as Objective Caml, is our flagship implementation of the Caml language. From a language standpoint, it extends the core Caml language with a fully-fledged object and class layer, as well as a powerful module system, all joined together by a sound, polymorphic type system featuring type inference. The OCaml system is an industrial-strength implementation of this language, featuring a high-performance native-code compiler for several processor architectures (IA32, AMD64, PowerPC, ARM, etc) as well as a bytecode compiler and interactive loop for quick development and portability. The OCaml distribution includes a standard library and a number of programming tools: replay debugger, lexer and parser generators, documentation generator, and compilation manager.

Web site: http://caml.inria.fr/