From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA32339; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:38:48 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA32124 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:38:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from post.kis.ru (post.kis.ru [195.98.32.206]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2EBckX20934 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:38:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from [195.98.54.162] (HELO heaven) by post.kis.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 1923716; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:38:43 +0300 From: "MikhailFedotov" To: "'William Lovas'" , "'Caml-list'" Subject: RE: [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book (LONG) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:38:43 +0300 Message-ID: <00a101c2ea1e$4410b7e0$a917a8c0@merann.ru> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal In-reply-To: <20030314112037.GA1373@force.stwing.upenn.edu> X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 introductory:99 ocaml:01 o'caml:02 worse:03 differences:04 seems:05 tutorial:05 i'd:06 maybe:06 languages:06 objective:07 programming:07 manual:07 i'm:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners