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 QAA21044; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:51:35 +0200 (MET DST) 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 QAA21744 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:51:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.203]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5NEpUEV028909 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:51:32 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.200] (ppp215-31.lns1.syd2.internode.on.net [203.122.215.31]) by smtp3.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5NEpNHY068458; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:21:24 +0930 (CST) Subject: RE: [Caml-list] More or bignums/ints From: skaller Reply-To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net To: jfh@cs.brown.edu Cc: "'Brian Hurt'" , caml-list In-Reply-To: <20040623105014.CEE8010EF06@clark.cs.brown.edu> References: <20040623105014.CEE8010EF06@clark.cs.brown.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1088002282.1941.35.camel@pelican.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-4) Date: 24 Jun 2004 00:51:23 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40D998F2.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 bignums:01 sourceforge:01 2004:99 abstraction:01 9660:01 glebe:01 ints:01 groups:01 nsw:01 snail:02 checkout:02 2037:03 wrote:03 401:93 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 20:50, John Hughes wrote: > The average scores for the > two groups in the big software-engineering course are pretty much > indistinguishable. Do you have any comment as to why this might be? Wouldn't you expect stronger concepts of abstraction developed by starting with FP to be useful in a programming-in-the-large situation? -- John Skaller, mailto:skaller@users.sf.net voice: 061-2-9660-0850, snail: PO BOX 401 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Checkout the Felix programming language http://felix.sf.net ------------------- 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