Xavier Leroy

1968– · French computer scientist and programmer

Topics: programming

• You see, the Caml garbage collector is like a god from ancient mythology: mighty, but very irritable. If you mess with it, it'll make you suffer in surprising ways.

  — Xavier Leroy

• A few programming is taking you away from mathematics; a lot will get you back in.

  — Xavier Leroy

• Repeat after me: "Obj.magic is not part of the OCaml language".

  — Xavier Leroy