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# ocaml
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OCaml is a general-purpose programming language, designed with program safety and reliability in mind.
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It is very expressive, yet easy to learn and use.
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OCaml supports functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming styles.
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It has been developed and distributed by INRIA, France's national research institute for computer science, since 1985.
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This package provides in particular the following tools:
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* ocamlc: the OCaml batch compiler,
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* ocamlopt: the OCaml high-performance native-code compiler,
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* ocamldep: the dependency generator (in a format suitable for the make utility),
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* ocaml: the interactive (command-line) toplevel system,
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* ocamlmktop: builds OCaml toplevels that contain user code preloaded at start-up,
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* ocamllex: the OCaml lexical analyser, very close to lex,
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* ocamlyacc: the OCaml parser generator, in the style yacc.
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* ocamldebug: the OCaml source-level replay debugger,
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* ocamlprof: the OCaml profiling tool,
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for programs compiled in profiling mode by using either
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ocamlcp: the front-end to the ocamlc compiler
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or
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ocamloptp: the front-end to the ocamlopt compiler,
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* ocamlbuild:
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automates the compilation of most OCaml projects with minimal user intervention,
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* ocamlmklib: a tool for building mixed C/OCaml libraries
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* ocamlobjinfo: a tool for displaying informations on files
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