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 RAA24333; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:58:13 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA24261 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:58:12 +0100 (MET) 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 UAA26992 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:02:37 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from web10304.mail.yahoo.com (web10304.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.82]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h2BJ2ZX18317 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:02:36 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <20030311190230.13615.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.165.156.80] by web10304.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:02:30 NZDT Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:02:30 +1300 (NZDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Graham=20Guttocks?= Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity To: Pierre Weis Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <200303111023.LAA09578@pauillac.inria.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 pierre:01 weis:01 introductory:99 faq:01 general-eng:01 sms:99 telstra:99 ocaml:01 caml:01 wrote:03 drawback:03 mean:05 profitable:93 indeed:06 X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 pierre:01 weis:01 introductory:99 faq:01 general-eng:01 sms:99 telstra:99 ocaml:01 caml:01 wrote:03 drawback:03 mean:05 profitable:93 indeed:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Pierre Weis wrote: > > 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. Do you mean that such a book could not be written, or simply that it just has not been written yet? I personally would like to see an ``Objective Caml for dummies'' as the available introductory material (in English) is pretty poor IMO. > learning Caml is indeed profitable to the way you deal with > programming problems, but on the other hand, yes, it is not so easy In http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/general-eng.html you said: ``Caml is a programming language, easy to learn, easy to use''. So is it easy or not easy? ===== Regards, Graham http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ------------------- 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