From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de (Oliver Bandel)
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [oliver: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity]
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:34:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030313003434.GA1261@first.in-berlin.de> (raw)
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To: Brian Hurt <brian.hurt@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:47:16PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
[...]
> Having *the* perfect introductory book is actually a detriment, as
> it discourages other books from entering the field, thus reducing your
> runnning foot total. Likewise, being intuitive or easy to understand is
> also a detriment, as this makes both for fewer books and for slimmer
> books. Much better to have multi-thousand page tomes (tombs?). And
> naturally, you can't measure running feet of web pages :-).
Having *NO* such an introductional book, and only
high-graded PhD-stuff, would you call this a
detriment too?
Ciao,
Oliver
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