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 KAA18541; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:33:03 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA18517 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:33:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from annexia.org ([217.79.102.70]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2D9X1f00009 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:33:01 +0100 (MET) Received: (from rich@localhost) by annexia.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) id h2D9X0oY013990 for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:33:00 GMT Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:32:59 +0000 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book Message-ID: <20030313093258.GB13948@redhat.com> References: <20030313033522.55942.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030313033522.55942.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 introductory:99 manning:99 freshmeat:01 ocaml:01 london:97 wrote:03 configurable:03 perl:03 akin:04 seems:05 redhat:05 tutorial:05 red:94 i'd:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:35:22PM +1300, Graham Guttocks wrote: > [reposting, as the first one didn't seem to go through] > > There seems to me clearly, a lack of a good, tutorial style, > introductory book about OCaml in English. Something akin to > ``Programming Perl'' (as someone mentioned). > > I'm talking to a publisher at Manning (http://www.manning.com) about > the possibility of such a book. They are intrigued, but would like to > see some indication that people are interested. > > Would you like to see such a book? Something you could pick up in the > technical section of your local bookshoppe. If so, speak up, and I'll > collect the responses to feed back to the publisher. Thanks. I'd buy it if it was any good. 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 NET::FTPSERVER is a full-featured, secure, configurable, database-backed FTP server written in Perl: http://www.annexia.org/freeware/netftpserver/ ------------------- 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