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FWIW: Core doesn't work with Windows (the Real World OCaml book does state this upfront) so you need either an OSX or Linux machine to work with Core, and so you can't work through the book with a Windows machine. Something to be aware of.

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I was really disappointed, as I only found this out after buying the book.

So I end up mostly reading the book as a means to update the knowledge I had from the Caml Light days and differences to F#.

For what it's worth, the world has changed since then: Core_kernel (which is the highly portable bits of Core, which is most of it) works on Windows just fine. Indeed, WODI, which is the best windows package manager for OCaml right now, ships with it.

Thanks for the info. I'll have a look at it.

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