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 EAA09031; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 04:44:21 +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 EAA08515 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 04:44:19 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from web10305.mail.yahoo.com (web10305.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.83]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h2D3iIf13187 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 04:44:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <20030313034417.12941.qmail@web10305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.230.238.2] by web10305.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:44:17 NZDT Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:44:17 +1300 (NZDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Graham=20Guttocks?= Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity To: William Lovas Cc: caml-list@inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20030313021517.GA29102@force.stwing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 lovas:01 wlovas:01 stwing:01 introductory:99 faq:01 digest:01 sms:99 telstra:99 ocaml:01 caml:01 wrote:03 william:05 upenn:06 quite:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk William Lovas wrote: > What about the O'Reilly book, "Developing Applications With > Objective Caml"? [...] > Like i said, it's not quite ideal at this point, but i'm surprised > nobody's mentioned it yet. I'm not that surprised. I got nothing out of the book when I tried to read it. It reads like a reference manual, so it may be of more use once I've learned the language, but it's not an adequate introductory text IMO. Despite its brevity, I got more out of: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/stephan.html Then I did the first several sections of the O'Reilly translation. This clear, explanatory style was much easier to digest. ===== Regards, Graham http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile. ------------------- 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