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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