From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E2DBC69 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:43:57 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAD8CIEfAXQImh2dsb2JhbACOWgIBCAop X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,328,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="18590275" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2007 11:43:57 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9P9htra029489 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:43:57 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAMICIEdQRFuw/2dsb2JhbAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,328,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="3584786" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 25 Oct 2007 11:43:54 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IkzFq-0007Et-00 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:43:54 +0100 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:43:54 +0100 To: OCaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Which syntax to teach ? Message-ID: <20071025094353.GA27217@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <1193225773.3612.27.camel@Blefuscu> <471F7F7B.9040905@fmf.uni-lj.si> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <471F7F7B.9040905@fmf.uni-lj.si> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 4720655B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; syntax:01 0200,:01 andrej:01 emacs:01 selections:98 nuisance:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 wed:06 red:92 bauer:09 actually:10 think:13 should:13 oct:14 On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:23:07PM +0200, Andrej Bauer wrote: > 1. Students want to use Microsoft Windows. > 2. Students HATE Emacs because its basic behavior regarding selections, > cut & paste is counter-intuitive to them. > 3. Students think Make is an archaic nuisance (and they're right). It's too much to expect that students should actually have to learn something :-) Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat