It's definitely not dead!  I work on it a bit every day.  I'm happily
hacking away on the first-class modules section today...

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On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 01:38:02PM +0100, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 02:26:18PM +0200, Paolo Donadeo wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:19 AM, <rixed@happyleptic.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  > I didn't know. Where is it?
> > > > https://github.com/bobzhang/ocaml-book
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, just cloned :-)
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity, does anyone have news about Real World
> > > OCaml<http://realworldocaml.org/>,
> > > by Jason Hickey, Anil Madhavapeddy and Yaron Minsky, that is supposed
> to be
> > > available this Autumn? The Twitter
> > > channel<https://twitter.com/#!/realworldocaml>is threateningly silent:
> > > is the project still alive?
> >
> > That's an interesting leap of logic. It'll be available in Autumn, so you
> > assume the project is dead in July? :-)
> >
> > Yes, we're working away on it.  The book will also be freely available
> > under a CC license, so don't worry: you'll have ample time to read it and
> > comment on the beta before it goes into 1st edition print.  We'll talk
> > more about the content after the first snapshot is out after the summer.
>
> To clarify further, the book will not going into print before the end of
> the year.  "Autumn" refers to when the online snapshots will be
> available for feedback and editorial review.
>
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> Anil Madhavapeddy                                 http://anil.recoil.org
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