Caml

dialect of the ML programming language family
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Caml

Summary

Caml is a dialect[1]. Caml draws 89 Wikipedia views per month (dialect category, ranking #128 of 862).[2]

Key Facts

  • Caml was influenced by ML[3].
  • Caml's instance of is recorded as dialect[4].
  • Caml's developer is recorded as Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique[5].
  • Caml's designed by is recorded as Gérard Huet[6].
  • Caml's software version identifier is recorded as 4.07[7].
  • +1985-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Caml[8].
  • Caml's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/076kx1[9].
  • Caml's official website is recorded as http://caml.inria.fr[10].
  • Caml's programming paradigm is recorded as multi-paradigm programming[11].
  • Caml's programming paradigm is recorded as functional programming[12].
  • Caml's programming paradigm is recorded as imperative programming[13].
  • Caml's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780710800[14].
  • Caml's typing discipline is recorded as inference typing[15].
  • Caml's typing discipline is recorded as strong typing[16].
  • Caml's typing discipline is recorded as static typing[17].
  • Caml's dialect of computer language is recorded as ML[18].
  • Caml's Mageia package is recorded as ocaml[19].
  • Caml's SlackBuilds package is recorded as development/camlp4[20].

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Designation and Status

Caml's instance of is recorded as dialect[4].

History and Context

+1985-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Caml[8].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Caml include OCaml[21], an object-based language[22], founded in 1996[23].

Why It Matters

Caml draws 89 Wikipedia views per month (dialect category, ranking #128 of 862).[2] Caml has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Caml is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Entities named for Caml include OCaml[21], an object-based language[22], founded in 1996[23].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . caml.inria.fr. caml.inria.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [3] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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