From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C68CD55E for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:24:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ptb-relay04.plus.net (ptb-relay02.plus.net [212.159.14.213]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j6SJORMU011043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:24:28 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1DyDzX-0004c8-I5 for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:24:27 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Games Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:22:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050728171947.80955.qmail@web30503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050728171947.80955.qmail@web30503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507282022.12795.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 42E930EB.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 ...:98 mouth:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml:02 graphics:02 objective:02 scope:02 probably:05 examples:07 examples:07 rather:07 distribution:09 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Thursday 28 July 2005 18:19, David Thomas wrote: > I would probably recommend a B&W book, and some > examples and pictures online. That way the pictures > and examples cost you nothing to distribute, people > can have a nice handy dead-tree copy, and other people > can see the examples and go, "I want to learn how to > do that..." and thus increase interest in the book. If I were to do this then it would be significantly cheaper to have entirely software rather than a book, simply because the distribution costs are so much lower for software. I also think there is great scope for educational software which includes real-time 2D and 3D graphics but I'll put my money where my mouth is before advocating that further. :-) What other OCaml-related educational software would people be interested in? DSL design? -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. Objective CAML for Scientists http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists