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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems to get larger user base ... (Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's
 variables)

Mr. Herr wrote:

> I think the biggest problem is you generally can only learn FP and/or Ocaml at
> university, because:
> 
> The FP terminology is at first (and a long time after starting learning it), without
> a teacher, not understandable.

Sorry, that's simply not true.

I studied my last univeristy course in 1992. I picked up Ocaml in 2004
and Haskell in 2008. Before Ocaml, the only functional language I had
used was scheme in the late 1980s.

Erik
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