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 LAA20765; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:15:13 +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 LAA20815 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:15:12 +0100 (MET) Received: from post.webmailer.de (natsmtp00.webmailer.de [192.67.198.74]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2DAFBf03607 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:15:11 +0100 (MET) Received: from pD952EE81.dip.t-dialin.net (pD952EE81.dip.t-dialin.net [217.82.238.129]) by post.webmailer.de (8.12.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id h2DAF2IS019715 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:15:06 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Schuerig Organization: - To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:15:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030313033522.55942.qmail@web10308.mail.yahoo.com> <20030313002808.G22850@speakeasy.org> <1047544404.1603.38.camel@giynz> In-Reply-To: <1047544404.1603.38.camel@giynz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303131115.01252.schuerig@acm.org> X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 introductory:99 admittedly:01 ocaml:01 harder:02 wrote:03 marketing:95 it'll:05 daniel:06 guess:06 quite:06 i'm:07 www:91 michael:08 language:10 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:33, Daniel M. Albro wrote: > We just need to get O'Reilly to publish > the English version (and there are still a few exercise solutions to > translate into English). Admittedly, I haven't read the book, but my understanding is that this book is based on OCaml 2.x. Is it really such a good idea to publish it as is when OCaml has been at version 3.x for quite some time now? I guess, I'm trying to make a "marketing" (shudder) point. No matter how good and useful the book is, it'll be harder to pitch it (and OCaml) to people willing to learn a new language, when at the same time you'd have to say "it's based on an earlier version of the language, but that's not important". Michael -- Michael Schuerig Not only does lightning not strike mailto:schuerig@acm.org twice, it usually doesn't strike once. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Salman Rushdie, "Fury" ------------------- 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