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Re:Plans for OCaml 4.08 by brohee on Thursday July 05, 2018 @03:28PM (#17466071)
OCaml was really born as Caml Light, in the early 90s..., it's soon to be 30 years old.
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Re:Plans for OCaml 4.08 by emmelaich on Friday July 06, 2018 @04:55AM (#17469937)
You could argue it started in 1973 as ML

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)

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Re:Plans for OCaml 4.08 by brohee on Friday July 06, 2018 @05:01PM (#17475073)
Yeah but in this case it was really just a name change, the team that worked on Caml Light renaming it OCaml as they added more features, and stopping working on Caml Light shortly after.
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