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Joshua B. Smith - Practical Ocaml - 9781430211945 - V9781430211945
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Practical Ocaml

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Description for Practical Ocaml Paperback. This book teaches Objective Caml by showing all the features of this functional programming language by example. You'll create a simple database, do reporting, create a spam filter, do complex log file scanning, create a ShoutCast server, and a web crawler. Num Pages: 462 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UMZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 191 x 25. Weight in Grams: 913.

Objective Caml (OCaml) is an open source programming language that allows you to utilize both functional and object-oriented programming. Sporting features such as a robust object system, type safety, and an expansive standard library, OCaml is a language that encourages pragmatic solutions instead of dogmatic ones. Boasting performance on par with the likes of C/C++, and having compilers available for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X, enterprise developers should consider adding this powerful language to their repertoire.

Written for experienced programmers, Practical OCaml teaches OCaml in a code-intensive fashion. Readers are encouraged to follow ... Read more

Language aficionados will be sure to enjoy the occasional digression into tangential topics such as OCaml's impurities from the functional programming perspective, with thoughts about how to overcome them using mutability, references, and classes.

In later chapters, you'll put what you've learned to work, building applications capable of performing complex log-file processing, crawling the Web, filtering spam, and even broadcasting audio over a network using the Shoutcast protocol.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
462
Condition
New
Number of Pages
462
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9781430211945
SKU
V9781430211945
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Joshua B. Smith
Joshua B. Smith is a consultant specializing in data problems and computing infrastructure. He got into computers while an undergraduate at Denison University in Ohio and spends most of his programming time using Python, OCaml, and Java. Josh lives in Chicago with his wife, Carol, and their two cats.

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