[Fwd: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity]

[Fwd: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity]

[sebastien FURIC]

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 Sorry, I forgot the list...

 Sebastien

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From: "Sébastien Furic" <sebastien.furic@tni.fr>
To: Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:44:53 +0100
Message-ID: <3E6DBE25.25F38749@tni.fr>

 Hi,

Pierre Weis a écrit :
<snip>
> 
> You are also right: this language has to be taught before being
> profitably used. The darker side of this fact is that conversely, you
> have to learn it. This may be the main drawback of Objective Caml:
> there is no ``Objective Caml for dummies''. That may be the price to
> pay to use a powerful and theoretically well-founded language.
> 
<snip>

 Some attempts are made in Haskell in order to return more comprehensive
error reports for beginners. Helium may be a good source of inspiration
for a "beginners-only" ocaml compiler:
 http://www.cs.uu.nl/~afie/helium/
 IMHO, syntactic aspects could be handled by an instance of ocamlp4. But
what about the rest ?

 Cheers,

 Sebastien

Re: [Fwd: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity] Ocaml-beginners ML

[Stalkern 2]

Il  Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:45, sebastien FURIC ha scritto:
>  Sorry, I forgot the list...
>
>  Sebastien


Since you're talking about ocaml beginners, I can give a quick report of the 
ocaml-beginners mailing list that I've started about one year ago:

Subscribers: 167
Messages: 883 right now

An interesting point is that as far as I see now the only expert contributing 
actively and continuously has been Rémi Vanicat.

Translation: if *you* already know Ocaml, you can take a ride on the teaching 
side by subscribing to ocaml_beginners. Be a senior camel ;-))

Cheers
Ernesto Torresin
PS You can see the archives here: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners/ 
(there is also a ads-free mhonarc version up to 11/10/02 at 
http://membres.lycos.fr/ipotesi/OCAML/ocaml-beginners_archive/index.html ).

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Re: [Fwd: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity] Ocaml-beginners ML

[Stalkern 2]

Il  Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:37, Joel Rosdahl ha scritto:
> Stalkern 2 <stalkern2@tin.it> writes:
> > Since you're talking about ocaml beginners, I can give a quick
> > report of the ocaml-beginners mailing list that I've started about
> > one year ago:
> > [...]
>
> It would be nice if this list was mentioned on http://www.ocaml.org.
>
>         Regards,
>         Joel

I can only ask the team working at http://www.ocaml.org to do that.

T I A
Ernesto

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