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=0.7 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 mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B6C3BBAF for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:35:47 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlkBALzOp0nUnwdkjWdsb2JhbACCKJI7AQEBAQkJCgkPBsIThBQG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,278,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="23638187" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 27 Feb 2009 20:35:47 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAOjPp0nUnw6S/2dsb2JhbACCKNUIhBQG Received: from ptb-relay02.plus.net ([212.159.14.146]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 27 Feb 2009 19:35:46 +0000 Received: from [87.112.14.152] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay02.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Ld8Us-0001ci-7R for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:35:46 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The new OCaml book (Objective Caml Programming Language by Tim Rentsch) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:40:59 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20090227122755.GA22309@annexia.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902271940.59823.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: da37872a77e45535f34608e0778ca48e X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 undergrad:01 ocaml's:01 2009:98 hutchinson:98 frog:98 blog:98 exams:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 standpoint:01 chapters:02 purely:02 On Friday 27 February 2009 14:28:58 Tom Hutchinson wrote: > I know a people have resorted to just printing out the pdf of the > draft. Great to finally buy this in a normal form. > > Never heard of the publisher though. Looks like the publisher was created just to publish this book, as we created Flying Frog to publish OCaml for Scientists four years ago. The publishers were kind enough to send me a complimentary copy so I shall blog a review on OCaml News in due course. Suffice to say that the content (264 pages from the main 17 chapters) is excellent from a purely theoretical standpoint and, I would say, targets undergrad computer scientists preparing to sit exams about OCaml. The book covers advanced topics in detail and contains lots of academic exercises. In particular, about a third of the book is devoted to OCaml's approach to object oriented programming. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e