From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5548BB9A for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:29:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA6NTQcG009331 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:29:26 +0100 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 AAA16441 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:29:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id jA6NTNkR009318 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 00:29:25 +0100 Received: from rosella (ppp7-104.lns1.syd7.internode.on.net [59.167.7.104]) by smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jA6NTLUu026650; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 09:59:21 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from skaller@users.sourceforge.net) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Wikipedia From: skaller To: frederic.gava@wanadoo.fr Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <12244524.1131308542594.JavaMail.www@wwinf1630> References: <12244524.1131308542594.JavaMail.www@wwinf1630> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:29:15 +1100 Message-Id: <1131319755.8596.75.camel@rosella> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 436E91D6.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 436E91D3.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 gava:01 ocaml's:01 ocaml:01 isomorphism:01 ocaml:01 variants:01 mutable:01 wrote:01 sourceforge:01 polymorphic:01 idiom:01 rewrite:01 contributed:02 frederic:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:22 +0100, Frederic GAVA wrote: > A little thing that I do not understand. Why the wikipedia page is not > written by the ocaml's team ? Why should it be? Why haven't YOU contributed some text? The idea of a Wiki is that anyone can contribute. Wouldn't the Ocaml team be a bit biased? In fact there is a lot of misleading or missing stuff in Wikipoedia, and there are also some excellent articles. Try Control Inversion (misleading crap about a Java idiom) Referential Transparency (totally wrong) Curry-Howard Isomorphism (Superb Article!) to mention 3 articles I've looked at recently. (I added a talk article critiquing the transparency article in the hope some expert would rewrite the article) Actually, the Ocaml article is not so bad, it just leaves out some things of importance -- as mentioned there is no description of some of the key extensions over ML, particularly polymorphic variants and labelled arguments, nor of key differences eg mutable fields. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net