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The Caml Light system comprises the following parts:
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- An interactive system, based on a read-eval-print loop: the user enters
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a phrase, the system compiles it and executes it on the fly, then print the
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outcome of evaluation. The interactive system is great for learning the
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language and testing programs.
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- A batch compiler and linker, camlc, with a command-line interface similar to
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the one of C compilers. The compiler produces standalone executable programs
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that can later be invoked just as any other command on the system. It
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integrates smoothly within the Unix programming environment
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(make, Emacs, ...).
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- A medium-sized standard library, providing a number of general-purpose
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functions and implementations of a few essential data structures
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(lists, arrays, hash tables, sets, ...).
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- A tool to build libraries of frequently-used program modules.
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- A parser generator and a lexical analyzer generator, in the style of lex and
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yacc.
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- Various programming tools and several interface libraries.
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