From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" <bcpierce@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
To: matias@k-bell.com
Cc: Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Book in english
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:22:56 EDT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19739.957795776@saul.cis.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 08 May 2000 11:13:07 -0300. <3916CB71.61FC0301@k-bell.com>
> How about "The little MLer", by Felleisen? That's an easy, nice book for
> beginners to start thinking in functional terms. It even has a chapter
> on modules, and even if it's based on the SML/NJ syntax, it contemplates
> CamlSpecialLight/OCaml syntax.
Unfortunately, freshmen are not very tolerant of "trivial syntactic
differences": we really need an OCaml book.
(Also, I remain to be convinced that Felleisen and Friedman's book,
for all its quirky virtues, is an ideal textbook, even for SML.
Anybody know if it's being used anyplace for real teaching?)
Benjamin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-08 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-05 8:16 Gerard Huet
2000-05-05 19:59 ` John Prevost
2000-05-05 20:52 ` Benjamin C. Pierce
2000-05-08 14:13 ` Matías Giovannini
2000-05-08 14:22 ` Benjamin C. Pierce [this message]
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