Xavier Leroy (born March 15, 1968) is a French computer scientist and a primary developer of the OCaml programming language, and he leads the CompCert project, which built an optimizing C compiler formally verified to be free of miscompilation bugs. He studied at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris before earning his PhD in 1992 under Gerard Huet, worked for many years as a senior scientist at Inria, and was appointed professor of software science at the College de France in 2018.
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Gérard Huet, Guy Cousineau, Ascánder Suárez, Pierre Weis, Michel Mauny (Heavy Caml), Xavier Leroy (Caml Light)
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