From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA07409; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:57:17 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA07402 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:57:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.47]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id hBCHvF111888 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:57:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from [212.74.114.6] (helo=mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com) by mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AUrWy-000OHc-6k for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:56:48 +0000 Received: from [141.228.156.225] by mk-cpfrontend.uk.tiscali.com with HTTP; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:57:14 +0000 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:57:14 +0000 Message-ID: <3FD472C100012432@mk-cpfrontend-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <16410548863.20031212183632@baara.com> From: ronniec95@lineone.net Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Saying hi and the most basic question To: "Caml List" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; ronniec:01 lineone:01 caml-list:01 re-writing:01 higher-order:01 caml-list:01 spanish:99 3.07:01 wet:99 python:01 bug:01 faq:01 faq:01 beginner's:01 beginners:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I got hooked on Caml just by re-writing a lot of the utilities we had at work written in perl/shell in Caml. It won't teach you the higher-order functional aspects of caml but it will give you and instant gratification= in terms of results. I learnt a lot about the std libraries by doing this - and it felt quite good to get something that was so much faster than the original in 1/2 as= many lines typically. Then moved to writing slightly larger pieces, (well I'm at a investment house) so wrote this com+ component with nicholas cannase's stuff on wind= ows for excel. (much nicer than VB!) That's it so far. I guess I've not really learnt proper functional progra= mming but I'm moer productive at work and I know a bit of Caml. Have fun though. Ronnie >-- Original Message -- >Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:36:32 +0100 >From: Joaquin Bernal >Reply-To: Joaquin Bernal >To: Caml List >Subject: [Caml-list] Saying hi and the most basic question > > >Hi all. I've just subscribed to the list (most redundant sentence ever) so I'm dropping the first question. Are there any tutorials or books available for download (english or spanish) besides Michael Mauny's "Functional Programing using Caml Light" >and the OCaml 3.07 Reference Manual itself? Besides that, what was your first project using Caml? I'd like to start mine, so maybe you can give advice about the kind of project most suitable for learning. What I've seen about Caml has wet my a >ettite and I'm sure I'll be starving soon :) It promises being the elegant and powerful language I was looking for. I've been using C/C++, Delphi, Lua, Java, Ruby, PHP, etc. last years and I was starting with Python lately, but I got in touch with >aml and I think we're going to keep together for a while :) Cheers, and please excuse my english. -- Joaquin Bernal jobe@baara.com ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inr= ia.fr Bug rep >rts: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners