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 PAA13946; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:00:04 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA12785 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:00:03 +0100 (MET) 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 KAA00311 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:56:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.gruposbd.com ([195.76.154.102]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0P9uIv05644 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:56:18 +0100 (MET) Received: by mail.gruposbd.com (Postfix, from userid 30) id 1281B4ECE; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:59:39 +0100 (CET) To: Ian Zimmerman Subject: Re: [Caml-list] gotchas [Was: toplevels] Message-ID: <1011956379.3c513a9b0eed5@webmail.sbdconsultors.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:59:39 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Gillot Cc: luther@debian.org, caml-list@inria.fr References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020122124034.026d1750@arda.pair.com> <20020121224336.GA17642@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <1011655678.3c4ca3fe74235@webmail.sbdconsultors.com> <20020121224336.GA17642@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <4.3.2.7.2.20020122124034.026d1750@arda.pair.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020123011902.00cde840@arda.pair.com> <1011778534.638.11.camel@node89> <86lmenxyz8.fsf_-_@speakeasy.org> In-Reply-To: <86lmenxyz8.fsf_-_@speakeasy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, Mensaje citado por: Ian Zimmerman : > > You make it sound as if ML were the frontier of research .. surely > not. ML has been around for about as long as Unix, and more > revolutionary languages like Haskell approach a decade in existence. More or less I think so. In the industry functional programming is sometimes something unknown (Java/C/C++/VB?). It's not a mainstream language, and when you come from a imperative/OO world, the first step is really hard. Because you've got to think in a another way. Not to mention the fact that in the industry seldom use functional programming... I don't deny there's documentation (especially in French, merci) but nothing in comparison with other functional languages (scheme and lisp for instance). IMHO, the documentation is not really for beginners. > > Christian> I think I'm gonna do a gotcha page, but don't you think > Christian> such a page deserve his place on caml.inria.fr ? > > It alredy exists: > > http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng.html > > At least 2 of your 3 problems are addressed there, and in its > companion FAQ_EXPERT. > Right. Could be improved tought. I mean it's not addressing the problems I had or others newbies had (example of the record) Note that the FAQ (which exist both in french and in english) are not included in the sid debian package. (Sven: could you add this to the packages ?) Regards, -- Christian Gillot GNU/Linux developer ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr