From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA14868; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:34:13 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA14782 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:34:11 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from giynz (vp191026.reshsg.uci.edu [128.195.191.26]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2D8YAX26054 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:34:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from albro by giynz with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18tO9V-0008Sz-00; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 00:33:25 -0800 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book From: "Daniel M. Albro" To: Shawn Wagner Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20030313002808.G22850@speakeasy.org> References: <20030313033522.55942.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com> <20030313002808.G22850@speakeasy.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1047544404.1603.38.camel@giynz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 13 Mar 2003 00:33:25 -0800 X-Spam: no; 0.00; ucla:99 caml-list:01 introductory:99 ocaml:01 tree:02 wrote:03 country:96 perl:03 akin:04 stuff:05 anyway:05 seems:05 mean:05 equivalent:05 tutorial:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Aw, man, don't bring up the "Freedom Fries," I was already embarrassed enough for my country as it is! Anyway, I think the O'Reilly book is actually quite good for learning, if you do all of the exercises and stuff. We just need to get O'Reilly to publish the English version (and there are still a few exercise solutions to translate into English). On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 00:28, Shawn Wagner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:35:22PM +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote: > > [reposting, as the first one didn't seem to go through] > > > > There seems to me clearly, a lack of a good, tutorial style, > > introductory book about OCaml in English. Something akin to > > ``Programming Perl'' (as someone mentioned). > > Don't you mean Learning Perl? > > There's already a Programming Perl reference manual equivalent, though you > have to read French (Er, excuse me, Freedom ;)) to get any use out of the > dead tree version. -- Daniel M. Albro ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners