Hi Xavier Leroy,<br /><br />On Mar 31, 2009 9:31am, Xavier Leroy &lt;Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr&gt; wrote:<br />&gt; One last word to you, that Xah Lee troll, and anyone else on this<br />&gt; list: if you&#39;re not happy with the existing material, write something<br />&gt; better.  Everyone will thank you and you&#39;ll get to better appreciate<br />&gt; the difficulty of the task.<br /><br />although there are several good tutorials, but i think it is important that the bundled official tutorial should be one that is good. By “good” here, i mean, it gives a simple overview of the syntax, and a simple overview, such as how to do arithmetic, basic types, if then else, true false issues, a couple example of most used data types such as list and n-tuple and records, how to define a function, how to call a library.<br /><br />Jon&#39;s, and Scott&#39;s tutorial are both in this format and i think is very suitable:<br /><br />• Ocaml for Scientists, by Jon Harrop, chapter 1 free:<br />http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html<br /><br />• “Introduction to Caml” by Scott Smith of Johns Hopkins U. A lecture note.<br />http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~scott/pl/lectures/caml-intro.html<br /><br />I only started learning OCaml, but my current notes at:<br /> http://xahlee.org/ocaml/ocaml_basics.html<br /><br />is also in this format. I don&#39;t know if Jon&#39;d be willing to lend his chapter 1 to be the official bundled tutorial. (would you Jon?) My guess is that Scott would easily offer his too. (No implication that anyone should offer this, of course.)<br /><br />If any official ocaml people wishes, feel free to start with mine as the bundled tutorial. I&#39;m sure with minor editing by you experts, it would be very suitable.<br /><br />I&#39;m often wrong. (^_^); But i think a simple, example based, very brief, tutorial, using concrete code examples, such as the above ones, with a slight emphasize on syntax (so first timers gets a sense of what exactly to type), would be a great first introduction. It&#39;d helpful to imperative programers as well as functional programers experienced with other functional langs. If this is bundled and sanctioned with the official manual, it&#39;d open up ocaml to many people who otherwise may not have had time to search for the right tutorial. (i hope)<br /><br />  Xah<br />∑ http://xahlee.org/<br /><br />☄