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 KAA25469; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:58:27 +0200 (MET DST) 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 KAA25475 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:58:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ip208.usw4.rb1.pdx.nwlink.com (ip208.usw4.rb1.pdx.nwlink.com [209.20.133.208]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with SMTP id f578wN918938 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:58:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 11505 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jun 2001 08:58:21 -0000 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 01:58:21 -0700 From: leary@nwlink.com To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity Message-ID: <20010607015821.B11344@jean> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I'd wager that 90% of the reason Perl is so huge is due to _Learning Perl_. Neophytes can start writing interactive programs on page 7. I went from near zero programming ability to writing an IDL parser/EDI data tranlator in about a month or so using that and Programming Perl -- for which the OCaml manual is a semi-reasonable, if terse and dry, match. Is there hope for the coming O'Reilly translation, or does it too think that I/O (i.e. doing something useful and interesting) is something best left for the later chapters (or the reference section)? It's hard for me to believe that OCaml can be both so good, and so unpopular (read: badly documented (read: no friendly tutorials)). From whence _Learning OCaml_? ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr