Using functional programming within an industrial product group: perspectives and perceptions

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In proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming, Sep 2010
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Authors. Dave Scott, Richard Sharp, Thomas Gazagnaire and Anil Madhavapeddy

See Also. This publication was part of my OCaml Labs, Xen Hypervisor and Functional Internet Services projects.

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Building the Xen toolstack using OCaml on 5th Nov 2010. Our experiences with Xen toolstack in OCaml at ICFP 2010. Read more in Using functional programming within an industrial product group: perspectives and perceptions. Part of the Xen Hypervisor project.

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