Re: [Caml-list] gotchas [Was: toplevels]

[Christian Gillot <cgillot@gruposbd.com>]

Hi,

Mensaje citado por: Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>:
> 
> You make it sound as if ML were the frontier of research .. surely
> not.  ML has been around for about as long as Unix, and more
> revolutionary languages like Haskell approach a decade in existence.
More or less I think so. In the industry functional programming is
sometimes something unknown (Java/C/C++/VB?). It's not a mainstream 
language, and when you come from a imperative/OO world, the first step is
really hard. Because you've got to think in a another way.
  Not to mention the fact that in the industry seldom use functional 
programming...
  I don't deny there's documentation (especially in French, merci) but
nothing in comparison with other functional languages (scheme and lisp 
for instance). IMHO, the documentation is not really for beginners.

> 
> Christian> I think I'm gonna do a gotcha page, but don't you think
> Christian> such a page deserve his place on caml.inria.fr ?
> 
> It alredy exists:
> 
> http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng.html
> 
> At least 2 of your 3 problems are addressed there, and in its
> companion FAQ_EXPERT.
> 
Right. Could be improved tought. I mean it's not addressing
the problems I had or others newbies had (example of the
record) 
Note that the FAQ (which exist both in french and in english) are not included 
in the sid debian package. (Sven: could you add this to the packages ?)

Regards,

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Christian Gillot <cgillot@gruposbd.com>
GNU/Linux developer
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