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language (Originally "CAML" - Categorical Abstract Machine
Language) A version of ML by G. Huet, G. Cousineau, Ascander
Suarez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny and others of INRIA and
ENS. CAML is intermediate between LCF ML and SML
[in what sense?].
It has first-class functions, static type inference with
polymorphic types, user-defined variant types and producttypes, and pattern matching. It is built on a proprietary
run-time system.
The CAML V3.1 implementation added lazy and mutable data
structures, a "grammar" mechanism for interfacing with the
high-performance arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and a
complete library. CAML V3 is often nicknamed "heavy CAML",
because of its heavy memory and CPU requirements compared to
in 1990 Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez designed a new
implementation called Caml Light, freeing the previous
implementation from too many experimental high-level features,
and more importantly, from the old Le_Lisp back-end.
Following the addition of a native-code compiler and a
powerful module system in 1995 and of the object and
class layer in 1996, the project's name was changed to
["The CAML Reference Manual", P. Weis et al, TR INRIA-ENS,
1989].
(2003-04-12)