From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA04BDCB for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:39:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j7UBdhbr012957 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:39:43 +0200 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA15774 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:39:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j7UBdfiU031752 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:39:42 +0200 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i3so533440wra for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:39:41 -0700 (PDT) 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:references; b=WO5VvMlsfSgWgy85EBy9woHHWfTBwu2P7FoPNruzKGWRXddMVZ4snCZz1IAeDE8sQCAa7jyebVr9Yyw62EflOz/b3z6pdHGVyu9k/KszzuBG2ke+bDhE71QMwFZ4HC6TkLG2gq9IO8eZuPl95UOH8ph+pvEkWVzCCv+mwh6528E= Received: by 10.54.44.48 with SMTP id r48mr7308501wrr; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.154.6 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <891bd3390508300439752d1ddd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:39:41 -0400 From: Yaron Minsky Reply-To: yminsky@cs.cornell.edu To: Matt Gushee Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Does LablTk have a future? Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <4313E30F.1050501@havenrock.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_2302_179439.1125401981313" References: <4311DA63.4010104@havenrock.com> <200508292333.59714.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <4313E30F.1050501@havenrock.com> X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4314457F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4314457D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 caml-list:01 labltk:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 gtk:01 gtk:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 necessarily:03 necessarily:03 similarly:03 similarly:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=HTML_30_40,HTML_MESSAGE, RCVD_BY_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 ------=_Part_2302_179439.1125401981313 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 8/30/05, Matt Gushee wrote: >=20 >=20 > Maybe today's OCamlers are by and large beyond needing that sort of > book. But it's kind of self-defeating to take for granted that the > status quo will continue. I'm inclined to think that as OCaml gains in > popularity--as it is certainly doing--there will be more people who need > more hand-holding. Which doesn't necessarily mean there's much of market > for a book such as I've proposed, just that I see some reason to hope. I haven't the faintest idea what the market for such a thing would be, but= =20 if a good book on using Tk from OCaml existed, I would buy it. Similarly fo= r=20 a Gtk/Ocaml book. y ------=_Part_2302_179439.1125401981313 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 8/30/05, Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com> wrote:

Maybe today's OCamlers are by and large beyond needing that sort of
= book. But it's kind of self-defeating to take for granted that the
statu= s quo will continue. I'm inclined to think that as OCaml gains in
popula= rity--as it is certainly doing--there will be more people who need
more hand-holding. Which doesn't necessarily mean there's much of marke= t
for a book such as I've proposed, just that I see some reason to hope.=

I haven't the faintest idea what the market for such a thing would be, but if a good book on using Tk from OCaml existed, I would buy it.  Similarly for a Gtk/Ocaml book.

y


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