Re: Problems to get larger user base ... (Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's variables)

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Mr. Herr wrote:

> 
> Am 27.05.2013 10:53, schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Scheme is terribly functional, so to say, and is absolutely immerged in the Lispy slang.
> All your knowlegde in C, Java, PHP, Assembler, Tcl/Tk, Pascal ... will not help you
> there.
> 
> I started as an IBM /370 Systems Admin in the late nineties, and it took me months of
> reading in 2012
> to get some understanding about what the heck the scheme people are talking about.
> 
> Scheme is even a better example for the problems non university learners encounter,
> than Ocaml, IMO.
> 
> Your point of view is rather supporting mine.

No it isn't.

I studied 6 months of Scheme in my first year of university in the late
1980s and never touched it again. *All* the Scheme I might have learned
in the late 1980s had been forgotten by the time I picked up Ocaml in
2004.

Erik
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