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 BAA04281; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:35:20 +0100 (MET) 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 BAA04619 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:35:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (hirsch.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.6]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2D0ZHf05474 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:35:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.12.8/8.12.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id h2D0ZGvp007255 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:35:16 +0100 Received: from first.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by hirsch.in-berlin.de (8.12.8/8.12.8/Debian-2) with UUCP id h2D0ZGjl007253 for inria.fr!caml-list; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:35:16 +0100 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de X-Envelope-To: inria.fr!caml-list Received: by first.in-berlin.de via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:34:35 +0100 (CET) From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de (Oliver Bandel) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:34:35 +0100 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [oliver: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity] Message-ID: <20030313003434.GA1261@first.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 in-berlin:01 bandel:01 caml-list:01 qlogic:01 0600,:01 introductory:99 discourages:01 ocaml:01 fewer:02 forwarded:97 ciao:02 wrote:03 intuitive:04 feet:93 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk ----- Forwarded message from oliver ----- To: Brian Hurt 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 ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------- 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