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 VAA16038; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:27:45 +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 VAA16099 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:27:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from codex.cis.upenn.edu (CODEX.CIS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.6.15]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f56JRhL25448 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:27:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from mwh@localhost) by codex.cis.upenn.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) id f56JRXQ15595; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:27:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Hicks Message-Id: <200106061927.f56JRXQ15595@codex.cis.upenn.edu> Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity To: charles@chasm.org (Charles Martin) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:27:32 -0400 (EDT) Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010606105508.03bcd550@chasm.org> from "Charles Martin" at Jun 6, 2001 11:25:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23-upenn3.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk > Perhaps the manual could be restructured to make this clear: > > PART I - Introduction to OCaml > > The core language > The module system > > PART II - Advanced Topics > > Objects in Caml > Advanced examples with classes and modules > Labels and variants I think this is an excellent idea. At Penn, our research active internetwork has two publicly available implementations: one in Java, and the other in Ocaml. Despite the fact that the Ocaml implementation is more flexible, better documented, faster, and still maintained, most users go for the clumsy, slow, poorly documented, unmaintained Java implementation (even after trying the Ocaml one) because they balk at learning Ocaml. Making the language easier to learn (and your suggestion above seems like a good start) would be a boon to the community I think. Mike -- Michael Hicks Ph.D. Candidate, the University of Pennsylvania http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mwh mailto://mwh@dsl.cis.upenn.edu "In essential things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity." --Pope John XXIII, Ad Petri Cathedram, and popularly attributed to St. Augustine ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr