Re: Problems to get larger user base ... (Re: [Caml-list] OCaml's variables)

["Mr. Herr" <misterherr@freenet.de>]

Am 28.05.2013 06:20, schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo:
> Mr. Herr wrote:
>
>> Am 27.05.2013 10:53, schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo:
>>> Mr. Herr wrote:
>>>> I think the biggest problem is you generally can only learn FP and/or Ocaml at
>>>> university, because:
>>>>
>>>> The FP terminology is at first (and a long time after starting learning it), without
>>>> a teacher, not understandable.
>>> Sorry, that's simply not true.
>>>
>>> I studied my last univeristy course in 1992. I picked up Ocaml in 2004
>>> and Haskell in 2008. Before Ocaml, the only functional language I had
>>> used was scheme in the late 1980s.
>>>
>> Scheme is terribly functional, so to say, and is absolutely immerged in the Lispy slang.
>> All your knowlegde in C, Java, PHP, Assembler, Tcl/Tk, Pascal ... will not help you
>> there.
>>
>> I started as an IBM /370 Systems Admin in the late nineties, and it took me months of
>> reading in 2012
>> to get some understanding about what the heck the scheme people are talking about.
>>
>> Scheme is even a better example for the problems non university learners encounter,
>> than Ocaml, IMO.
>>
>> Your point of view is rather supporting mine.
> No it isn't.
>
> I studied 6 months of Scheme in my first year of university in the late
> 1980s and never touched it again. *All* the Scheme I might have learned
> in the late 1980s had been forgotten by the time I picked up Ocaml in
> 2004.
>
> Erik
But you studied computer science?

/Str.