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authorYawar Amin <yawar.amin@gmail.com>2017-09-30 15:24:23 -0400
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The OCaml manual is distributed in HTML, PDF, Postscript, DVI, and Emacs
Info files. It is available at
-http://caml.inria.fr/
-
-The community also maintains the Web site http://ocaml.org, with tutorials
-and other useful information for OCaml users.
+http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/
== Availability
The complete OCaml distribution can be accessed at
-http://caml.inria.fr/
+http://ocaml.org/docs/install.html
== Keeping in Touch with the Caml Community
-There exists a mailing list of users of the OCaml implementations developed
-at INRIA. The purpose of this list is to share experience, exchange ideas
-(and even code), and report on applications of the OCaml language. Messages
-can be written in English or in French. The list has more than 1000
-subscribers.
-
-Messages to the list should be sent to:
+The OCaml mailing list is the longest-running forum for OCaml users.
+You can email it at
mailto:caml-list@inria.fr[]
-You can subscribe to this list via the Web interface at
+You can subscribe and access list archives via the Web interface at
https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/caml-list
-Archives of the list are available on the Web site above.
+You can also access a newer discussion forum at
-The Usenet news `groups comp.lang.ml` and `comp.lang.functional` also
-contains discussions about the ML family of programming languages, including
-OCaml.
+https://discuss.ocaml.org/
-The IRC channel `#ocaml` on https://freenode.net/[Freenode] also has several
-hundred users and welcomes questions.
+There also exist other mailing lists, chat channels, and various other forums
+around the internet for getting in touch with the OCaml and ML family language
+community. These can be accessed at
-The OCaml Community website is
+http://ocaml.org/community/
-http://ocaml.org/
+In particular, the IRC channel `#ocaml` on https://freenode.net/[Freenode] has a
+long history and welcomes questions.
== Bug Reports and User Feedback