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
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2000-06-07 20:23 ` Markus Mottl
2000-06-07 22:02 ` Max Skaller
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2000-06-08 8:54 ` Sven LUTHER
2000-06-08 22:36 ` Daniel Ortmann
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2000-06-09 22:06 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
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