Caml
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Caml (originally an acronym for Categorical Abstract Machine Language) is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose, high-level, functional programming language which is a dialect of the ML programming language family. Caml was developed in France at French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and École normale supérieure (Paris) (ENS).
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Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: functional, imperative |
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Family | ML |
Designed by | Gérard Huet, Guy Cousineau, Ascánder Suárez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny (Heavy Caml), Xavier Leroy (Caml Light) |
Developer | INRIA, ENS |
First appeared | 1985; 39 years ago (1985) |
Stable release | |
Typing discipline | inferred, static, strong |
Memory management | automatic |
OS | Cross-platform: Unix, Linux, macOS; Windows |
License | QPL 1, LGPL 2 (Caml Light) |
Website | caml |
Influenced by | |
ML | |
Influenced | |
OCaml |
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Caml is statically typed, strictly evaluated, and uses automatic memory management. OCaml, the main descendant of Caml, adds many features to the language, including an object-oriented programming (object) layer.