The first computer keyboard that I used regularly was a mechanical one: the one built into my father’s Apple II. At some point, likely in September 2007 with an XPS 720, I acquired a wired (USB) Dell SK-8135 keyboard. Full-sized, in a UK ISO layout, it is a rubber dome keyboard but with the feel […]
The economics of OCaml
OCaml (formerly Objective Caml) is a functional programming language. I wondered if the economics of OCaml could provide a benchmark for the economics of Haskell. ML (Meta Language) influenced Caml (Categorical Abstract Machine Language) (1985) and Haskell (1990). Caml influenced OCaml (1996). Caml was developed by the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science […]