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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

On 7 déc. 2011, at 14:15, David MENTRE wrote:

> 2011/12/7 Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>:
>>> The French book "Le langage Caml" is very great,
> 
> Yes, yes and yes!
> 
> I especially loved the "do one *complete* program in one chapter of a
> few pages" approach.

Yes, it's a great start to write a course on Caml. (I realize that the online version is the second edition, yet it is shorter than the paper version I have here. Either some chapters were removed in the 2nd edition or they are not available online.)

> Another idea: adapt the book to ePub format extended with Javascript
> (apparently latest ePub draft has such scripting capabilities) and use
> js_of_ocaml tool to embed an OCaml toplevel inside the book: read the
> examples, execute examples, play with the examples! Wouldn't it be
> nice? ;-)

This would be most useful for teaching. I'd be ready to help such a project.

Alan