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From: Brent Fulgham <brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: Reverse-Engineering Bytecode: A Possible Commercial Objection To   O'Caml
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 09:13:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EDFD2A95EE7DD31187350090279C6767958A90@THRESHER> (raw)

> > I'm in the process of reading "The Functional Approach
> > to Programming" (Cousineau & Mauny).  This book is not
> > strictly OCaml 
> 
> That's part of the problem. People here are short of time:
> while education in functional programming techniques is 
> useful, a description of Ocaml is more pointed: remember,
> Ocaml is _not_ a functional programming language, but an
> Algol like language with functional, procedural, and object
> oriented components... just like C++. 
> 
> In ocaml, the 'orientation' is more functional, but the biggest
> obstacle isn't the functional paradigm as such, but the actual
> concrete syntax used.
> 
Yes.  An O'Reilly-style "Nutshell" handbook would be quite nice.
However, I have not seen such an animal.  I'm afraid the C&M book
is all that's available for those of us whose French skills are
sub-par.

It will probably take a killer app to get such a book published...

-Brent




             reply	other threads:[~2000-06-09 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-09 16:13 Brent Fulgham [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-06-09 18:18 Brent Fulgham
2000-06-08 21:58 Brent Fulgham
2000-06-07 21:41 Michael Donat
2000-06-06 20:46 Daniel Ortmann
2000-06-07 20:23 ` Markus Mottl
2000-06-07 22:02 ` Max Skaller
2000-06-07 22:15 ` Max Skaller
2000-06-08  8:54 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-06-08 22:36   ` Daniel Ortmann
2000-06-09 13:34     ` Sven LUTHER
2000-06-09 22:06     ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2000-06-10 14:41     ` Gerd Stolpmann
2000-06-09 15:44 ` Julian Assange

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