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Caml

dialect of the ML programming language family
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Summary

Caml is a dialect[1].

Key Facts

  • Influenced by: ML[2]
  • Developer: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique[3]
  • Designed by: Gérard Huet[4]
  • Software version identifier: 4.07[5]
  • Inception: 1985[6]
  • Official website: http://caml.inria.fr[7]
  • Programming paradigm: multi-paradigm programming[8], functional programming[9], imperative programming[10]
  • Typing discipline: inference typing[11], strong typing[12], static typing[13]
  • Dialect of computer language: ML[14]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Caml include OCaml[15], an object-based language[16], founded in 1996[17].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Caml include OCaml[15], an object-based language[16], founded in 1996[17].

Related Entities

dialect Gérard Huet ML OCaml

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . caml.inria.fr. caml.inria.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  1. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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