From: Martin Berger <martinb@dcs.qmul.ac.uk>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Experiences with learning OCaml?
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:16:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A675CC.5050501@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411251314200.3359-100000@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
i have to disagree. while SICP is a brilliant book that i used
to teach myself programming from (and nothing i learned as an
undergraduate really went beyond), these days, i'd recommend
Ocaml to beginners. scheme has one VERY BIG problem: it is
untyped (in the sense of static type checking). thinking about
types properly is such an important factor in becoming a good
programmer. it seems to me that there is little one can learn
from scheme that one couldn't learn from ocaml, and probably
learn better.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-26 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-25 11:40 whenning
2004-11-25 11:59 ` [Caml-list] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-11-25 13:46 ` skaller
2004-11-25 12:28 ` chen yang
2004-11-25 13:52 ` Martin Berger
2004-11-25 13:36 ` Richard Jones
2004-11-25 20:39 ` Joshua D. Guttman
2004-11-25 20:56 ` Michael Vanier
2004-11-25 21:16 ` Danny Yoo
2004-11-26 0:16 ` Martin Berger [this message]
2004-11-26 0:15 ` Michael Walter
2004-11-26 0:47 ` SooHyoung Oh
2004-11-26 1:46 ` Michael Vanier
2004-11-26 3:09 ` SooHyoung Oh
2004-11-26 6:56 ` William Lovas
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