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 TAA11714; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:40:05 +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 TAA13045 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:40:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from Math.Berkeley.EDU (gold.Math.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.58.61]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g31He2f02252 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:40:02 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from yuban-c.math.Berkeley.EDU (blue1 [169.229.58.58]) by Math.Berkeley.EDU (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g31HaMcJ020141; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:36:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from datta@localhost) by yuban-c.math.Berkeley.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA18972; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:36:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:36:21 -0800 From: Ruchira Datta To: caml-announce@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] English O'Reilly OCaml Book Now Online! Message-ID: <20020401093621.A18835@blue1.Math.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: datta@math.berkeley.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk It is my great pleasure to announce that the first fruits of the _Developing Applications with Objective Caml_ translation project are now online! Please go to http://caml.inria.fr/oreilly-book/ where the preliminary version of the English translation of this seven hundred-odd page book is available for your viewing pleasure! This translation is the product of an unprecedented effort by roughly sixty volunteers worldwide. What is it about Objective Caml that inspires so much devotion in so many people? Now is your chance to find out! If you've just been waiting for an English book to introduce you to this amazing language, this one explains everything you need, including OCaml's fundamentals, accompanying tools, and support for software architecture and concurrency & distribution. Replete with extensive examples, it will be of interest even to experienced OCaml aficionados. As mentioned above, this is a preliminary version. Some solutions to exercises have not been translated and some proofreading needs to be done. So please excuse any glitches you find, and promptly bring them to our attention by emailing the translators' list: translators@pauillac.inria.fr Please feel free to tell us as well if our prose is unclear or awkward. We are eager to hear your comments, questions, and criticisms, so we can help give OCaml the book it deserves. Note that the book is based on OCaml 2.04, the version current when the original French was being written, although an appendix explains the new features of OCaml 3.04 relative to that version. Since OCaml 3.04 is fully backward-compatible with OCaml 2.04, all the example code should work with this version (or indeed any version from OCaml 3.00 on). But if you experience any problems in this regard, please bring them to our attention. We must thank the authors--Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal Manoury, and Bruno Pagano--as well as O'Reilly, for the monumental task of producing this book in the first place, as well as their generosity in approving this translation project and allowing it to go online. We must especially thank Xavier Leroy for his tireless efforts. Besides translating two chapters, he has been the sysadmin of the project and has also undertaken some of the most tedious tasks of the translation. I personally don't understand how he does it---I would have thought just leading the Ocaml team would have been more than enough work for anybody. We all owe him an enormous debt of gratitude. Please join me in a virtual round of applause, thanking all the volunteers for all their hard work to bring this translation to the light of day! Well-done! Ruchira Datta datta@math.berkeley.edu On behalf of the volunteer translators and proofreaders: translators@pauillac.inria.fr ------------------- 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