CAML

The first implementation of Caml appeared in 1987. Ascánder Suárez created it as part of the Formel project at INRIA, headed by Gérard Huet. Later, Pierre Weis and Michel Mauny continued developing it. In 1990, Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez built a new implementation called Caml Light that they based on a bytecode interpreter with a fast, sequential garbage collector. Over the next few years, useful libraries appeared, such as Michel Mauny's syntax manipulation tools, and this helped promote the use of Caml in education and research teams... OCaml is a general-purpose, industrial-strength programming language with an emphasis on expressiveness and safety... There is something transformative about having all these features together and able to interact in a single language. Despite their importance, these ideas have made only limited inroads into mainstream languages, and when they do arrive there, like first-class functions in C# or parametric polymorphism in Java, it's typically..