What is OCaml and why this language?

OCaml is a compiled language, very powerful (that is to say more than all the non-compiled languages ​​like Ruby, Python, and even more than the elaborate VMs like Java or C #), and widely used for the manipulation of complex data: languages (linguistics), programs (compilers), formulas (algebra) …

It is a generalist language (you can do anything with it, except in a pinch the very low level (operating system kernel) for which it is not suitable). It is a fairly high level language, and quite portable, and the implementation is free.

It’s a functional language, so it implements concepts that are both powerful and different from what you know: it easily allows a fairly large abstraction, without imposing object-oriented programming (even if it is possible) for it , and is a programming language, in some ways, quite close to mathematics.

Like all languages ​​derived from ML, has strong, static and inferred typing (no need to specify types by hand all the time).

The syntax is different from languages ​​that use C syntax, but all languages ​​that do not use C syntax are, so it’s not that surprising.

For the disadvantages:

• OCaml is not widely used (much less than popular languages ​​like PHP, Ruby …) so we will find fewer blogs that promote it on every street corner. It feels a bit in terms of external library support (eg there is no Qt binding), but it’s still quite livable.
• As for the lessons / tutorials, there are quite a few, both in English (normal) and in French (which is rarer). In fact, Caml is a language originally developed in France, so we will find a lot of resources in French.
• Using Caml on windows is less enjoyable than on GNU / Linux, but we get by with it.

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