Re: [Xen-API] Good resource for learning ocaml?

[John Else <john.else@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I would like to learn just enough ocaml to be able to navigate and understand 
> the xapi code.
> Do you have any recommendations for getting started with ocaml? There are 
> some books available but I'm not sure how relevant they are, for example, the 
> O'Reilly one seems to be based on the Jane Street core library, so I'm not 
> sure if that is used on xapi?
> Many thanks,
> Chris

Hi Chris,

You are correct, Core is not used in the xapi codebase at the moment (although 
don't let that stop you from becoming familiar with Core once you've learnt the 
basic language).

As a starting point I'd recommend the INRIA documentation [1] followed by Unix 
system programming in OCaml [2], the latter being very relevant to the 
lower-level parts of xapi.

John

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml-4.01/
[2] http://ocamlunix.forge.ocamlcore.org/


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