From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2AC3BC6B for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 16:56:08 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CACBvMUdAFmAg/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,385,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="5550590" Received: from matthew.asmallorange.com ([64.22.96.32]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 07 Nov 2007 16:56:08 +0100 Received: from [207.112.39.86] (helo=[192.168.11.8]) by matthew.asmallorange.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IpnGA-0005X2-Af; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:56:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4731E008.9060605@marseda.com> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:55:52 -0500 From: Alan Falloon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria To: Jon Harrop Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: OT: Commercial Support and Programming Languages References: <200711041201.10255.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <1194233546.27580.4.camel@rosella.wigram> <472E94E8.3060905@fischerventure.com> <200711050504.26680.jon@ffconsultancy.com> In-Reply-To: <200711050504.26680.jon@ffconsultancy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - matthew.asmallorange.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yquem.inria.fr X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - marseda.com X-Spam: no; 0.00; o'reilly:01 lablgtk:01 ffi:01 emacs:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 camlp:01 emacs:01 camlp:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 alan:02 alan:02 xemacs:02 ides:02 Jon Harrop wrote: > On Monday 05 November 2007 03:58, Robert Fischer wrote: >> And O'Reilly had a big hand in evangelizing Perl, although it didn't >> offer "commercial support" in the form of consulting. > > Indeed. Programming books are an often-forgotten but quite substantial > commercial market. I'm still yearning for a book that covers ocamlbuild, > IDEs, lablgtk, C FFI and so on... > > Are there even any good tutorials on how to use Emacs/XEmacs as an IDE for > OCaml, covering integrated top-level evaluation and so on? If you write one of those books, I will buy it. Specifically, I want books covering: packaging ocaml for release, camlp4 in detail, advanced ocamlbuild, and getting the most out of emacs and/or vim. Maybe you could get Nicolas Pouillard to consult on camlp4 and ocamlbuild.