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 PAA28808; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:02:20 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA29755; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:02:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from saul.cis.upenn.edu (SAUL.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.12.4]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g38D26P03096; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:02:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saul.cis.upenn.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g38D22mI011061; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:02:02 -0400 (EDT) To: eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp cc: translators@pauillac.inria.fr, caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr, sumii@yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Reply-to: bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: English O'Reilly OCaml Book Now Online! In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 07 Apr 2002 16:22:42 +0900. <20020407162242A.sumii@yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 09:02:02 EDT Message-ID: <11060.1018270922@saul.cis.upenn.edu> From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi Eijiro, > Great! It seems that _many_ people in Japan (including me) are > interested in translating this book into Japanese. Would it be > possible if somebody (I, for example) is determined to organize > translators? I think it would be wonderful if somebody (e.g. you) wanted to take this on. > One major problem would be that, unfortunately, not so many native > speakers of Japanese understand French. So, the translation process > would be (if possible at all): > > (1) translate the English version into Japanese > > (2) check the translation against the Frensh version with a few > people who understand both French and Japanese (and OCaml) I can only think of one or two such people, so I hope they're in the mood for some serious reading... :-) In general, though, this plan sounds workable to me. > Another issue would be, of course, about the copyright. O'Reilly has been extremely reasonable about such matters. I can put you in touch with the appropriate editor there. Regards, Benjamin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- BENJAMIN C. PIERCE, Professor Dept. of Computer & Information Science bcpierce@cis.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania +1 215 898-2012 200 South 33rd St. Fax: +1 215 898-0587 Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- 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