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 SAA25088; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:12:47 +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 SAA25174 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:12:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from annexia.org ([217.79.102.70]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2CHCjX28044 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:12:45 +0100 (MET) Received: (from rich@localhost) by annexia.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) id h2CHCie8011567 for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:12:44 GMT Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:12:43 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Message-ID: <20030312171242.GA11435@redhat.com> References: <200303111023.LAA09578@pauillac.inria.fr> <20030311190230.13615.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030311190230.13615.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 pierre:01 weis:01 introductory:99 higher-order:01 freshmeat:01 dbi:99 threads:01 ocaml:01 caml:01 london:97 wrote:03 library:03 drawback:03 perl:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:02:30AM +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote: > 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. Someone else actually said it well on this list a while back. There is no "Programming Perl"-equivalent for OCaml. And please don't start by telling me about the lambda calculus or higher-order functions. Start by telling me how to read and write files. How to draw a nice picture. Go on to tell me how to access my SQL database from an OCaml application server. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Red Hat Inc. (London, UK) http://www.redhat.com/software/ccm http://www.annexia.org/ Freshmeat projects: http://freshmeat.net/users/rwmj PTHRLIB is a library for writing small, efficient and fast servers in C. HTTP, CGI, DBI, lightweight threads: http://www.annexia.org/freeware/pthrlib/ ------------------- 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