From: "MikhailFedotov" <mikhail@kittown.com>
To: "'William Lovas'" <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>,
"'Caml-list'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book (LONG)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:38:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00a101c2ea1e$4410b7e0$a917a8c0@merann.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030314112037.GA1373@force.stwing.upenn.edu>
Hi!
> Maybe i'm being too idealistic here, but i think a "perfect"
> tutorial for O'Caml should focus on the ways it's different
> from other programming languages, not the ways it's the same.
But it seems to me that the objective of such manual is
to distract the user from the language, not to attract. :)
If you tell the user that the language you are presenting
is very different from those languages that he is used
to respect, I'd bet that he will think you language is
worse. :-)
Any concentration of differences is very dangerous.
Mikhail
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-14 11:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-14 8:12 Sergey Goldgaber
2003-03-14 9:51 ` Noel Welsh
2003-03-14 10:36 ` Sergey Goldgaber
2003-03-14 10:47 ` Noel Welsh
2003-03-14 11:13 ` Sergey Goldgaber
2003-03-14 11:47 ` Noel Welsh
2003-03-14 12:59 ` Geoff Wozniak
2003-03-14 11:20 ` William Lovas
2003-03-14 11:38 ` MikhailFedotov [this message]
2003-03-14 12:16 ` Sergey Goldgaber
2003-03-14 18:57 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2003-03-14 14:17 ` Guido Kollerie
2003-03-14 14:52 ` Fred Yankowski
2003-03-14 17:24 ` Brian Hurt
2003-03-16 0:44 isaac gouy
[not found] <20030318093223.I30420@latour.inria.fr>
2003-03-18 9:47 ` Sergey Goldgaber
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