From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47A0BC2F for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:15:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iAQ0Fagg018650 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:15:36 +0100 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 BAA01139 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:15:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.203]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iAQ0FZ5Q020916 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 01:15:35 +0100 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so313484rnf for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:15:34 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=U6PQDHji8RxjzFKkangMlZTOCjpj6+2rqzmFRIN8hfWDOKUPOGOcso4Rj6w+YgJzE21bMGgi7o8GIVTRBA167uwrKVP62WA6ut3K4ROyKEkQ8q+ueI6wytmYqgKw2W6++K3QkaLtSlFXx+nCK5F8BA8xIndbN1ljJ8xtnClDDnM= Received: by 10.38.164.65 with SMTP id m65mr316027rne; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:15:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.164.68 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:15:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <877e9a1704112516151bfeec08@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:15:34 -0500 From: Michael Walter Reply-To: Michael Walter To: Martin Berger Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Experiences with learning OCaml? Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <41A675CC.5050501@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41A675CC.5050501@dcs.qmul.ac.uk> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41A675A8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41A675A7.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 dcs:01 qmul:01 wrote:01 sicp:01 ocaml:01 beginners:01 untyped:01 cheers:01 checking:01 types:02 seems:03 programming:03 static:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:16:12 +0000, Martin Berger 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