<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the latest Caml Weekly News, for the week of March 10 to 17, 2009.</div><div><br></div><div>1) caml trading</div><div><br></div><div>========================================================================</div><div>1) caml trading</div><div>Archive: <<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/1dbdc932e8f843a8#">http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/1dbdc932e8f843a8#</a>></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>** Yaron Minsky announced:</div><div><br></div><div>For those who are interested, I just posted a video of a talk I gave at CMU</div><div>several weeks ago about Jane Street's use of OCaml. This is an updated version</div><div>of the talk I gave at POPL last year. Various people have expressed an</div><div>interest in showing the talk to their undergraduate classes, so I thought it</div><div>worth mentioning on the list.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's the link:</div><div><br></div><div> <<a href="http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61">http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/61</a>></div><div><br></div><div>I can also provide the original quicktime file from which this is based on</div><div>request.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>** Jim Miller asked and Yaron Minsky replied:</div><div><br></div><div>> While I know that time is a huge</div><div>> factor, I'd be very interested in any blogs or writings you have on</div><div>> what specific techniques you used to help with these issues. In</div><div>> particular, the build process that you use. I've seen you mention in</div><div>> the past on this list that you've had issues with some the existing</div><div>> build tools.</div><div><br></div><div>Our blog is here:</div><div><br></div><div> <<a href="http://ocaml.janestreet.com">http://ocaml.janestreet.com</a>></div><div><br></div><div>And I wrote a post about our build system here: </div><div><br></div><div> <<a href="http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/36">http://ocaml.janestreet.com/?q=node/36</a>></div><div><br></div><div>Interestingly, it is the most popular post on the blog. Turns out, there are</div><div>more people who care about version control than people who care about</div><div>functional programming. (It's not that bad, though. The second most popular</div><div>post is on type-indexed values).</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>========================================================================</div><div>Using folding to read the cwn in vim 6+</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Here is a quick trick to help you read this CWN if you are viewing it using</div><div>vim (version 6 or greater).</div><div><br></div><div>:set foldmethod=expr</div><div>:set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~'^=\\{78}$'?'<1':1</div><div>zM</div><div>If you know of a better way, please let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>========================================================================</div><div>Old cwn</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>If you happen to miss a CWN, you can send me a message</div><div>(<a href="mailto:alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org">alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org</a>) and I'll mail it to you, or go take a look at</div><div>the archive (<<a href="http://alan.petitepomme.net/cwn/">http://alan.petitepomme.net/cwn/</a>>) or the RSS feed of the</div><div>archives (<<a href="http://alan.petitepomme.net/cwn/cwn.rss">http://alan.petitepomme.net/cwn/cwn.rss</a>>). If you also wish</div><div>to receive it every week by mail, you may subscribe online at</div><div><<a href="http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/caml-news-weekly/">http://lists.idyll.org/listinfo/caml-news-weekly/</a>> .</div><div><br></div><div>========================================================================</div><div class="AppleMailSignature" id="E12A09DE-ADCF-40D6-B7D4-306ED5CADD30"> <div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>-- </div><div>Alan Schmitt <<a href="http://alan.petitepomme.net/">http://alan.petitepomme.net/</a>></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen.</div><div> .O.</div><div> ..O</div><div> OOO</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>