A light weight implementation of CAML, a strongly typed functional

language belonging to the ML family.

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+Caml is a strongly-typed functional programming language from the
+ML family, close to Standard ML but slightly different.
+
+URL:	http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/index-eng.html
+
+The Caml Light system comprises the following parts: 
+     - An interactive system, based on a read-eval-print loop.
+     - A batch compiler and linker, `camlc'.  The compiler
+       produces standalone executable programs.
+     - A medium-sized standard library.
+     - A tool to build libraries of frequently-used program modules. 
+     - A parser generator and a lexical analyzer generator, in the
+       style of lex and yacc.
+     - Various programming tools: 
+         - A source-level debugger with replay capabilities (``time travel''). 
+         - An hypertext browser for modules. 
+	 - A simple Emacs editing mode, plus the ability to run the
+	 - toplevel or the debugger under Emacs.
+         - Search by types on modules. 
+     - Several interface libraries: 
+         - Portable graphic primitives (simple line and text drawings). 
+         - Interface with the Unix system calls. 
+         - Arbitrary-precision rational arithmetic (extremely efficient). 
+         - High-level string operations (regular expressions, ...).