Re: [Caml-list] Need help for a practical hacking book about ocaml

[bob zhang <bobzhang1988@gmail.com>]

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Thanks.

About why ocaml is more productive, probably my explanation will cause a
flaming war,  so
correct me if I am wrong.

Of course, I understand monad, arrow, frp, TH, ST monad or other topics in
haskell, but that
does not really help solve the *real wolrd problems*. And laziness/purity
is really a big hurt.

I think what helps is we could share our tricks programming with ocaml,
some nice tricks or
techniques really help boost productivity. For example, I wrote a tiny
toplevel library (like hoogle
for haskell), I found it really helps.

My experience in ocaml limited,  and the documentation of ocaml is really
lacking, so I think sharing
will help the small community.

I wrote the docs using latex, I digged muse tonight, I can htmlized it, if
that could help sharing.
I would publish it to github after Christmas.

Merry XMas :-)

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:11 PM, oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 04:55:26PM -0500, bobzhang wrote:
> [...]
> >  My book mainly focus on how to make ocaml programmers more productive,
> > quite different from other existing books.
> [...]
>
> A good idea.
>
> [...]
> >  I have been digging haskell, ocaml, lisp for several years, honestly
> > speaking, I found ocaml is still the most productive language.
> [...]
>
> You could put the above paragraph into the preface.
> And mention, that even you found OCaml to be the most
> productive language, you even want to become more productive,
> and that was the reason for your book... (that's what I understood).
>
> Maybe you could elaborate a littlebid more about why you
> think that OCaml is most productive.
> It's of course also my conclusion from looking at a lot of languages.
> But you might be better in explaining it.
>
> You asked for help.
> Can you specify more detailed, which kind of help you are looking for?
>
> Ciao,
>    Oliver
>



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Best, bob

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