Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge), Yaron Minsky

Real World Ocaml: Functional Programming for the Masses

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Real World OCaml provides thorough coverage of OCaml's language features, starting with a lightweight guided tour, and then exploring every major feature in depth, including functors and GADTs. It is an essential guide for programmers looking to learn statically typed functional programming. Also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 169mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 952g
• ISBN-13: 9781009125802
• ISBN-10: 100912580X
• Artikelnr.: 64295908

Autorenporträt

Anil Madhavapeddy is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. He has used OCaml professionally for over two decades in numerous ventures, such as XenSource/Citrix and Unikernel Systems/Docker, and co-founded the MirageOS unikernel project. He is a member of the OCaml development team.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prologue
Part I. Language Concepts: 2. A guided tour
3. Variables and functions
4. Lists and patterns
5. Files, modules, and programs
6. Records
7. Variants
8. Error handling
9. Imperative programming
10. GADTs
11. Functors
12. First-class Modules
13. Objects
14. Classes
Part II. Tools and Techniques: 15. Maps and hash tables
16. Command-line parsing
17. Concurrent programming with Async
18. Testing
19. Handling JSON data
20. Parsing with Ocamllex and Menhir
21. Data serialization with S-expressions
22. The OCaml platform
Part III. The Compiler and Runtime System: 23. Foreign function interface
24. Memory representation of values
25. Understanding the garbage collector
26. The compiler frontend: parsing and type checking
27. The compiler backend: bytecode and native code
References
Index.