From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85745BC88 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:52:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j12LqNM2006970 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:52:23 +0100 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 WAA08647 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:52:22 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp8.wanadoo.fr (smtp8.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.23]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j12LqMOo006967 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:52:22 +0100 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0808.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 4D8F71C00250; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:52:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from nono (ARouen-106-1-15-125.w81-48.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.48.246.125]) by mwinf0808.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with SMTP id D180D1C00246; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:52:21 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050202215221858.D180D1C00246@mwinf0808.wanadoo.fr Message-ID: <000f01c50971$baad4840$0100a8c0@mshome.net> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Gava?= To: Cc: "Caml Mailing List" References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> <8008871f05020213362d21ba87@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:54:11 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42014B97.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 42014B96.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; gava:01 gava:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 yaron:01 minsky:01 yminsky:01 wrote:01 ocaml:01 sml:01 caltech:02 classe:02 functional:02 programming:03 frederic:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: Hi, > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:31:28 -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote: > > - Some schools teach ocaml. Brown and Caltech apparently have intro ocaml > > courses. Any other places that teach the language? Any ideas on how many > > students go through these courses? I think that "all" French Universities use OCaml to teach functional programming (some of them use Scheme or SML depending of the years and/or the teachers). Ocaml is also used in "Classe préparatoires", special schools in France to be engineers. I also heard that Ocaml is sometime teach in Italian Universities but I am not sure. Regards, Frédéric Gava