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=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 474D9BBAF for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:42:06 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvYDALe0p0lQRFuwcWdsb2JhbACUYwEMCyLCHYQUBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,277,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="23634137" Received: from furbychan.cocan.org ([80.68.91.176]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 27 Feb 2009 18:42:05 +0100 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld6iq-0000nB-PD; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:42:04 +0000 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:42:04 +0000 To: Nathaniel Gray Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The new OCaml book (Objective Caml Programming Language by Tim Rentsch) Message-ID: <20090227174204.GH9415@annexia.org> References: <20090227122755.GA22309@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 2009:98 2009:98 wrote:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 chapters:02 caml:02 objective:02 suggestion:03 programming:03 fri:05 fri:05 derived:05 i'd:06 On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 09:37:05AM -0800, Nathaniel Gray wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Richard Jones wrote: > > I previously mentioned this book on the list and said that I'd been > > promised a review copy from the publisher: > > > > http://www.amazon.com/Objective-Caml-Programming-Language/dp/0981599206 > > > > I received the review copy from Abscissa Press yesterday and I have > > read the first few chapters.  This book is in fact the Jason Hickey > > book which has been floating around on the net for a while, updated by > > Tim Rentsch who I think is Jason's colleague or student. > > As someone who *was* Jason's student, I'd suggest that if that book is > clearly derived from Jason's book but Jason's name isn't on the cover > you should definitely be asking questions about that. I would say > more but I don't want to put words in Jason's mouth. I don't think there is any suggestion that it was plagiarised from him. In fact I think the author mentions Jason in the introduction ... Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat