Can anyone recommend a good primer to learn OCaml? (ideally aimed at so someone familiar with traditions C-style languages)
The material I’ve found has been quite dense where I’m just looking to learn enough to be dangerous
The material I’ve found has been quite dense where I’m just looking to learn enough to be dangerous
After that, I would recommend the new (beta) version of Real World OCaml — it gets a lot more in depth about more advanced language features: https://dev.realworldocaml.org/toc.html
There is also https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs3110/2019fa/textbook/. Yours is 2019 Spring, this is 2019 Fall. This version covers many more topics. Might be useful for some. :)
Just to add more:
- https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/u3-ocaml/ocaml.pdf (Using, Understanding, and Unraveling The OCaml Language by Didier Rémy)
- https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/ocamlunix.pdf (Unix System Programming in OCaml by Xavier Leroy and Didier Rémy)
- https://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/ocaml-4.12/ocaml-4.12-refm...
- https://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials
You might also find interesting stuff here: https://blog.janestreet.com/. There are videos, too: https://blog.janestreet.com/why-ocaml/
Note that ;; is only required in the REPL (i.e. the 'toplevel'), not in source code.