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From: Michael Schuerig <schuerig@acm.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:15:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303131115.01252.schuerig@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1047544404.1603.38.camel@giynz>

On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:33, Daniel M. Albro wrote:
> We just need to get O'Reilly to publish
> the English version (and there are still a few exercise solutions to
> translate into English).

Admittedly, I haven't read the book, but my understanding is that this 
book is based on OCaml 2.x. Is it really such a good idea to publish it 
as is when OCaml has been at version 3.x for quite some time now?

I guess, I'm trying to make a "marketing" (shudder) point. No matter how 
good and useful the book is, it'll be harder to pitch it (and OCaml) to 
people willing to learn a new language, when at the same time you'd 
have to say "it's based on an earlier version of the language, but 
that's not important".

Michael

-- 
Michael Schuerig                 Not only does lightning not strike
mailto:schuerig@acm.org          twice, it usually doesn't strike once.
http://www.schuerig.de/michael/  --Salman Rushdie, "Fury"

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-13 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-13  3:35 Graham Guttocks
2003-03-13  7:35 ` Martin Weber
2003-03-13  9:36   ` MikhailFedotov
2003-03-13  9:48     ` Jacques Garrigue
2003-03-13  8:28 ` Shawn Wagner
2003-03-13  8:33   ` Daniel M. Albro
2003-03-13 10:15     ` Michael Schuerig [this message]
2003-03-13 15:53       ` [Caml-list] O'Reilly book (was poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book) Christophe TROESTLER
2003-03-13 17:01         ` Xavier Leroy
2003-03-13 20:05           ` [Caml-list] [OT] Re: O'Reilly book Christophe TROESTLER
2003-03-14  2:02           ` [Caml-list] O'Reilly book (was poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book) Alan Schmitt
2003-03-13  9:32 ` [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book Richard W.M. Jones

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