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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 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
> But you studied computer science?

No, computer engineering, concentrating on digital logic design and
digital signal processing. My interest in computer science came 
long after completed by studies.

Erik
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