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 IAA24872; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:39:42 +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 IAA24581 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:39:41 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0K7ddL15034 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:39:40 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 12615 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2002 07:39:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kronstadt) ([64.81.49.223]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Jan 2002 07:39:33 -0000 Received: from itz by kronstadt with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16SCZg-0003Iw-00 for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 23:39:32 -0800 To: caml-list@inria.fr (OCAML) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] advice on integrating Caml into an algorithms class? References: <20020119233831.GA27240@reverberate.org> From: Ian Zimmerman Date: 19 Jan 2002 23:39:32 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020119233831.GA27240@reverberate.org> Message-ID: <86r8olxyh7.fsf@speakeasy.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Joshua> I want to take a crack at another language that is Joshua> significantly different, and Caml seems to fit the Joshua> bill. Simultaneously, I'm taking an algorithms class this Joshua> semester, and I want to somehow integrate my exploration of Joshua> alternative programming paradigms with my algorithms Joshua> class. Can anyone suggest ways I might approach this? Will the Joshua> algorithms we study have straightforward implementations in Joshua> Caml? Straightforward, almost certainly (Ocaml is a much better Pascal than Pascal :) Idiomatic, hard to say - that depends on the algorithms (you don't write what they are) and also a bit on the instructor. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles. ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr