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 NAA01685; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:47:21 +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 NAA01211 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:47:13 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from smtp3.cp.tin.it (vsmtp3.tin.it [212.216.176.223]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2EClBf00840 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:47:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from favilla.biomedin.int (212.171.41.194) by smtp3.cp.tin.it (6.5.033) id 3E48CE9F00C35A26 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:47:10 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Stalkern 2 Reply-To: stalkern2@tin.it To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Learning Ocaml a book is a closed item; is manual under FDL??? Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:52:17 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200303141352.17861.stalkern2@tin.it> X-Spam: no; 0.00; stalkern:01 introductory:99 users':01 ernesto:01 ocaml:01 contributed:01 thread:02 age:96 btw:03 let:04 ocamlers:05 contribute:05 i'd:06 programming:07 manual:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hello to everybody. I'd like to say a word about the recent thread about "a good introductory OCaml book", yet I'm starting a new thread because I don't agree about the idea that introduction to Ocaml shall pass through a book. Personally, I landed on Ocaml with no programming experience other than PHP; no math background; the age of 29. I got the O'reilly book in french and felt the lack of a ocaml-beginners' list; I asked Xavier Leroy for his agreement and an ocaml-beginners' list could start. Still now, I think that only the ocamlers can promote Ocaml. In my opinion, today it is so easy to set up a users' contributed site (see for instance http://www.spip.org) that it is not only old-fashioned, but also harmful to think about "closed" books. What am I thinking about? 1) take the ocaml manual 2) put it in a SPIP, one article per page 3) let users contribute for each page, like you can see here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php Why don't I do that? I've not done that YET. Let me know your advice. BTW, I plan to start mirroring a copy of the manual. What is the license for the manual? is it FDL? Ernesto ------------------- 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