From: Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Cc: Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The new OCaml book (Objective Caml Programming Language by Tim Rentsch)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 23:58:39 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903040758.n247wded007119@alumnus.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49AC2775.1060005@inria.fr> (message from Xavier Leroy on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:37:41 +0100)
> Coming back to the Hickey/Rentsch book(s), I feel deeply sad about
> the mess that is unfolding on this list. I proofread a draft of Jason
> Hickey's book, at his request, and found it very good and just what
> the OCaml community is still missing: a well-written, English-language
> book on Caml appropriate both as a reference and as teaching material.
> (I'm not criticizing the other books in english on OCaml -- thanks God
> they exist! -- just noting that they don't quite fit this exact purpose.)
> What we now have is lawsuit material... I sincerely hope some kind of
> agreement can still be found at this point.
I'm glad this sentiment found public expression. I have also a
longer response but after some reflection decided it would be better
to send that as an individual email than in a public message.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 16:21 Tim Rentsch
2009-03-02 18:06 ` Alexy Khrabrov
2009-03-02 18:37 ` Xavier Leroy
2009-03-03 1:29 ` Jon Harrop
2009-03-04 7:58 ` Tim Rentsch [this message]
2009-03-04 6:59 ` Tim Rentsch
2009-03-04 8:06 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2009-03-05 2:57 ` Jason Hickey
2009-03-05 3:17 ` Jason Hickey
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-04 13:39 Ed Keith
2009-02-28 17:17 Tim Rentsch
2009-02-27 12:27 Richard Jones
2009-02-27 12:29 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2009-02-27 14:28 ` Tom Hutchinson
2009-02-27 19:40 ` Jon Harrop
2009-02-27 20:22 ` Jason Hickey
2009-02-27 21:34 ` Jon Harrop
2009-02-27 21:48 ` Dario Teixeira
2009-02-28 14:19 ` Jon Harrop
2009-02-27 23:34 ` Richard Jones
2009-02-28 17:52 ` Tim Rentsch
2009-02-27 17:37 ` Nathaniel Gray
2009-02-27 17:42 ` Richard Jones
[not found] ` <aee06c9e0902271043g419a0581mf17430b55a695f2b@mail.gmail.com>
2009-02-27 18:45 ` Nathaniel Gray
2009-02-27 18:52 ` William Neumann
2009-02-27 20:06 ` Jon Harrop
2009-02-27 23:29 ` Richard Jones
2009-02-27 17:46 ` Alexy Khrabrov
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