The presentation isn't as long as the slide count makes it out to be; each transition (such as adding a bullet point to a list) gets its own slide. So even though it's 127 pages, you can read through it in 10 minutes.<p>The meat of it doesn't start until slide 35. Everything before that is motivation for the project, which is improving the library and syntax of OCaml.<p>Did anyone else find the proposed syntax Python-y? I actually think that's a good thing, as it's expressive. But even the name ("Batteries Included") makes me think of Python, as Guido famously considers Python a language with the batteries included.<p>(Disclaimer: I'm making my way through the OCaml tutorial (<a href="http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/</a>), so I don't even qualify as a OCaml newbie since I've never written a line of OCaml code. But I will seriously consider it for my next systems programming project, since it seems to occupy the intersection of functional, expressive and low-overhead.)