From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] questions
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903312218.46142.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3091E0E6-226B-4F4A-A78C-E523C250B8D5@osu.edu>
On Tuesday 31 March 2009 14:37:05 Kuba Ober wrote:
> There must be some reason why the manual and other materials on the
> official site are of such poor quality.
FWIW, I think the OCaml manual is superb and under-appreciated.
> Jon's
> book, and Marcelo DiPierro's web2py book. Both are very good books
> because the authors have a feel for what it takes to understand what
> they talk about. Yet both miss out on some newer features of OCaml and
> web2py, respectively -- features that would be best explained by the
> very same authors!
My work is driven by profit, of course, and I believe it is substantially more
profitable to publish new books on related fringe topics where there is
little or no competition (e.g. F#, Scala, Clojure) rather than write a second
edition of an existing book like OCaml for Scientists.
I am currently writing another F# book but only because we do not publish one
yet. After that, I'll probably turn to another language but that may very
well be HLVM if I can develop it quickly enough...
--
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 19:42 questions John Prince
2009-03-24 20:42 ` [Caml-list] questions Stéphane Glondu
2009-03-24 20:44 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-25 0:17 ` Richard Jones
2009-03-25 1:11 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-03-25 0:24 ` questions Michael Ekstrand
2009-03-25 5:45 ` [Caml-list] questions David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-03-25 17:16 ` John Prince
2009-03-27 22:14 ` xah lee
2009-03-31 13:37 ` Kuba Ober
2009-03-31 14:44 ` Martin Jambon
2009-04-01 13:49 ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2009-04-01 19:13 ` David MENTRE
2009-04-01 19:27 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-01 20:23 ` Re : " Matthieu Wipliez
2009-04-02 7:20 ` David MENTRE
2009-04-02 8:06 ` LLC book [was: Questions] Xavier Leroy
2009-04-02 8:23 ` [Caml-list] " Alp Mestan
2009-04-04 17:17 ` Re : [Caml-list] questions Kuba Ober
2009-03-31 16:31 ` Xavier Leroy
2009-04-01 9:14 ` FALCON Gilles RD-RESA-LAN
2009-04-01 12:59 ` Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
2009-04-01 16:45 ` Kuba Ober
2009-04-01 13:13 ` Xavier Leroy
2009-04-01 13:42 ` Till Varoquaux
2009-04-01 16:29 ` Kuba Ober
2009-04-01 15:17 ` xahlee
2009-04-02 10:35 ` Florian Hars
2009-03-31 21:18 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
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2006-11-06 18:51 questions Igor Ozerov
2006-11-06 23:18 ` [Caml-list] questions Richard Jones
2006-11-07 8:55 ` Richard Jones
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