From: Michael Walter <michael.walter@gmail.com>
To: Martin Berger <martinb@dcs.qmul.ac.uk>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Experiences with learning OCaml?
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:15:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e9a1704112516151bfeec08@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41A675CC.5050501@dcs.qmul.ac.uk>
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:16:12 +0000, Martin Berger
<martinb@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
So which equally "brilliant book" using ocaml do you recommend? ;-)
Cheers,
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-26 0:15 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
2004-11-26 0:15 ` Michael Walter [this message]
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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