Why Rubyists Should Learn OCaml

By popular demand, here is my Ruby.MN presentation: “Why Rubyists Should Learn OCaml”, recorded and edited by Hamlet D’Arcy.

Slides (they’re a bit hard to see on the MPEG)
Main Presentation
Q&A After Presentation (Very interesting: don’t miss it.)
Main Presentation, Q&A, and Slides in a handy .tar.gz

Note: It was just pointed out by “bluestorm” on #ocaml that on the “Complex Data Types : Lists” slide, I write the string list as ["2", "false", "Hello, World!"]. That should be ["2"; "false"; "Hello, World!"]. The pain of bouncing back and forth between OCaml and Ruby/Groovy…

Note 2: Another site with an introduction to OCaml is http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/.

Note 3: I also presented a bit of a hands-on OCaml session at Groovy.MN as a kind of follow-up to Ruby.MN. The hand-out is at http://smokejumperit.com/ocaml_for_groovy_mn.pdf.

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