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

[chris snow <chsnow123@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:44 AM, John Else <john.else@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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/
>

Hi John, great information - thank you!

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