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"Benjamin C. Pierce" wrote:
> 
> > "The Functional Approach to Programming" by Guy Cousineau and Michel Mauny,
> > Cambridge University Press, 1998.
> >
> > It is a quite good reference book on programming in Caml Light, close
> > enough to Objective Caml to be used as a standard beginner's textbook, even
> > if it does not cover modules and objects. It gives many serious programming
> > examples, and answers many of the questions that are routinely asked on
> > this list, such as how to program doubly linked lists (the "sweet"
> > implementation given by Xavier a few days ago is covered in section 4.4.5
> > for instance).
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not quite the book we need at Penn (neither is
> the new O'Reilly book, from what I've heard, but I'm hoping that parts
> will be useful) -- it's an excellent book for second- or third-year
> students with some programming background, but it seems too hard for
> complete beginners or for (U.S.) college freshmen.  (If anyone has
> evidence to contradict that claim, I'd love to hear it!)
> 
>       B

How about "The little MLer", by Felleisen? That's an easy, nice book for
beginners to start thinking in functional terms. It even has a chapter
on modules, and even if it's based on the SML/NJ syntax, it contemplates
CamlSpecialLight/OCaml syntax.

HTH,
Matías.

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