"Out of popular request (wow, people on #ocaml@freenode are very excited about the Batteries thingy, good!), I've prepared Debian packages for OCaml Batteries Included, version alpha 2 ..."

"Dear programmers. I am happy to inform you that, despite the in-progress liquidation of French Universities, OCaml Batteries Included Alpha 3 has landed. Barring any accident, this should be the final Alpha version, with a mostly stable API and module structure. You may now download it from the Forge..."

"As per title: OCaml 3.10.2 (... and friends of course) today has entered testing, as such it will be released with Debian Lenny. Yay..."

"I’m happy to tell you that the on-line help system for the OCaml toplevel has just been committed to our new git repository. So what does this mean? ..."

A new version of the OCaml was released on 2010-08-02 ...

Available for only 200 dollars and can run off of AA Batteries. Norhtec’s Gecko EduBook can run off of 8 NiMH rechargeable batteries.

Stefano Zacchiroli became the new Debian project leader! Long time package maintainer, quality assurance team member. Supporter of OCaml. Release Critical Bugs of the Week and Application Manager member. He is also gave very clear, objectively progressive goals why he is running for DPL.

Last week, Mauricio Fernandez announced a new Ruby to OCaml bridge that he’s working on, called rocaml. With the growing interest in functional languages in the Ruby world, this seemed like the sort of thing I needed to talk to him about, so I sent off a quick set of questions, and this is what I heard back.

NorhTec announced a netbook that operates on eight AA batteries, has an internal power supply, and runs Linux on a 1GHz x86-based SoC (system on chip).