From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 767F0BC6B for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:16:24 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAA4qKEfAXQInh2dsb2JhbACOZAIBCAopgRM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,351,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3880809" Received: from concorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.39]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 31 Oct 2007 15:16:24 +0100 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9VEGNe6006862 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:16:24 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAABErKEfLENaHnmdsb2JhbACOZAIBAQcEBhEYgRM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,351,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3772315" Received: from ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net ([203.16.214.135]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 31 Oct 2007 15:16:22 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAC4oKEd5LGK+Wmdsb2JhbAAMjk4BIIE6 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,351,1188743400"; d="scan'208";a="178550418" Received: from ppp121-44-98-190.lns10.syd6.internode.on.net (HELO [192.168.1.201]) ([121.44.98.190]) by ipmail03.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2007 00:46:16 +1030 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Idea for an open-source project From: skaller To: David Teller Cc: OCaml In-Reply-To: <1193834843.6677.39.camel@Blefuscu> References: <1193834843.6677.39.camel@Blefuscu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:16:15 +1100 Message-Id: <1193840175.5831.11.camel@rosella.wigram> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 47288E37.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 'try:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 typing:01 caml-list:01 gui:03 tutorial:03 tutorial:03 wed:06 useless:07 probably:07 group:07 approach:08 john:08 On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 13:47 +0100, David Teller wrote: > I think it would be a nice project for a group of students. What do you > think of this ? Just my $A0.92, I've used these kinds of tools before, and they're great for the first 2 days learning a language, and useless after that -- typing is so much faster. For that reason a GUI based version of this is probably a waste of time. However a web-browser based version is another story altogether because it only needs to be deployed once on a single server, and then everyone can use it. Ruby has a tutorial with a 'try it and see' approach .. that's my total experience with Ruby, 1 hour playing with the web tutorial, but I think it worked well to introduce me to that language. -- John Skaller Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net