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Here is the latest OCaml Weekly News, for the week of July 28 to August 04, 2015.
I will be offline for the next two weeks, so the next CWN will be on the 25th of August.
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2015-07/msg00134.html
Daniel de Rauglaudre announced:Camlp5 6.14 released, compatible with all versions of OCaml up to 4.02.4. Has been tested with coq v8.5. Download sources at http://camlp5.gforge.inria.fr/
Archive: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/caml-list/2015-07/msg00143.html
Damien Doligez announced:OCAML 2015 The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop http://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2015/ Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada September 4, 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Co-located with ICFP 2015 Sponsored by SIGPLAN Early registration deadline: Monday 3 August 2015 ============================================================================== Register online: https://regmaster4.com/2015conf/ICFP15/register.php The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop brings together industrial users of OCaml with academics and hackers who are working on extending the language, type system and tools. OUD 2015 will be held in Vancouver on 4 September, immediately after ICFP and ML 2015. Programme ========= 8:40 - 8:45 Welcome 8:45 - 10:00 Session 1: debugging and profiling - Towards A Debugger for Native-Code OCaml Fabrice Le Fessant, Pierre Chambart - Operf: Benchmarking the OCaml Compiler Pierre Chambart, Fabrice Le Fessant, Vincent Bernardoff - Core.Time_stamp_counter: A fast high resolution time source Roshan James, Christopher Hardin 10:00 - 10:30 coffee 10:30 - 11:20 Session 2: Low-level concerns - Specialization of Generic Array Accesses After Inlining Ryohei Tokuda, Eijiro Sumii, Akinori Abe - Inline Assembly in OCaml Vladimir Brankov 11:20 - 11:40 break 11:40 : 12:30 Session 3: OCaml news - The State of OCaml (invited talk) Xavier Leroy - The State of the OCaml Platform: September 2015 Anil Madhavapeddy, Amir Chaudhry, Thomas Gazagnaire, Jeremy Yallop, David Sheets 12:30 - 14:00 lunch 14:00 - 14:50 Session 4: Front-end - Modular macros Jeremy Yallop, Leo White - Typeful PPX and Value Implicits Jun Furuse 14:50 - 15:10 break 15:10 - 16:00 Session 5: semantics and language features - Global Semantic Analysis on OCaml programs Thomas Blanc, Pierre Chambart, Michel Mauny, Fabrice Le Fessant - Effective Concurrency through Algebraic Effects Stephen Dolan, Leo White, Kc Sivaramakrishnan, Jeremy Yallop, Anil Madhavapeddy 16:00 - 16:30 tea 16:30 - 18:10 Session 6: Community and uses of OCaml - A review of the growth of the OCaml community Amir Chaudhry - Persistent Networking with Irmin and MirageOS Mindy Preston, Magnus Skjegstad, Thomas Gazagnaire, Richard Mortier, Anil Madhavapeddy - Ketrew and Biokepi Sebastien Mondet - Four years of OCaml in production Anders Fugmann, Jonas B. Jensen, Mads Hartmann Jensen Programme Committee =================== * Ashish Agarwal, Solvuu LLC, USA * Sandrine Blazy, Universite Rennes 1, France * Cristiano Calcagno, Facebook, USA * Emmanuel Chailloux, Universite Paris 6, France * Pierre Chambart, OCamlPro, France * Damien Doligez, Jane Street, USA / Inria, France (chair) * Martin Jambon, Esper, France * Keigo Imai, IT Planning Inc, Japan * Julien Verlaguet, Facebook, USA * Markus Weissman, TU Muenchen, Germany * Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge, UK
Thanks to Alp Mestan, we now include in the OCaml Weekly News the links to the recent posts from the ocamlcore planet blog at http://planet.ocaml.org/. Functional Jobs: Software Engineer at Pegged Software (Full-time) http://functionaljobs.com/jobs/8854-software-engineer-at-pegged-software Github OCaml jobs: Full Time: Software Developer (Functional Programming) at Jane Street in New York, NY; London, UK; Hong Kong http://jobs.github.com/positions/0a9333c4-71da-11e0-9ac7-692793c00b45 GaGallium: Formally verifying the complexity of OCaml programs with CFML -- part 3 http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/formally-verified-complexity-with-cfml-part-3 Andrej Bauer: Intermediate truth values http://math.andrej.com/2015/07/30/intermediate-truth-values/ GaGallium: Formally verifying the complexity of OCaml programs with CFML -- interlude http://gallium.inria.fr/blog/formally-verified-complexity-with-cfml-part-2
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