From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id pBAF05pb018479 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:00:05 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhsCAExz407UGyoClGdsb2JhbABDp3hGgj4iAQEBAQkLCQkUAyKBcgEBBAEyASArCwshJQ8CRhMIAQGIBAK0dIhTgxoElHGFS4xd X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,331,1320620400"; d="scan'208";a="134837658" Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.2]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 10 Dec 2011 16:00:00 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (unknown [82.237.71.191]) by smtp2-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C384B0052 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:59:53 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EE3737C.50809@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:58:04 +0100 From: Xavier Leroy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110921 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr References: <4EDE33A0.6070004@gmail.com> <4EDE568C.9040803@lexifi.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions On 12/07/2011 12:18 PM, Gabriel Scherer wrote: >> The French book "Le langage Caml" is very great, althought it is quite old, >> and althought examples used in the book (write a pascal compiler, a grep >> tool and so on) is maybe too theoristic for engineer target. >> Maybe a translation would be sufficient ? > > I have contacted Xavier Leroy and Pierre Weis a few years ago to get > the TeX sources of the book. I didn't intend to translate from French > to English, but only, for a start, from Caml Light to Objective Caml. > Neither of them could find the sources There must have been a misunderstanding: I have the full LaTeX sources, of course. What may have been lost is Pierre's first cut at an OCaml version of the book. Alan Schmitt adds: > Yes, it's a great start to write a course on Caml. (I realize that > the online version is the second edition, yet it is shorter than the > paper version I have here. Either some chapters were removed in the > 2nd edition or they are not available online.) No, no, the online edition is identical to the 2nd edition, which has one additional chapter. It's just that pages are wider and taller than those of the 1st edition, resulting in fewer pages overall. David Mentré adds: > Unfortunately, it is available under a non Free license (Non > Commercial clause of CC-BY-NC-SA licence), this is a show stopper for > me. I would like such a book to be included in Debian or other Free > Software distributions. I stand very firmly by the NC license. If anyone wants to make money out of this book or a derived work, the original authors and all the future contributors should get their share, Debian orthodoxy notwithstanding. - Xavier Leroy