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=0.5 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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 915DEBBAF for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:38:15 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjkBAA/hyEnUnwdkjWdsb2JhbACCH5NJAQEBAQkJCgkPBr0Ng3YG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,414,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="26244472" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net ([212.159.7.100]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 24 Mar 2009 21:38:15 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjkFAP/hyEnUnw6T/2dsb2JhbACCH9EWg3YG Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net ([212.159.14.147]) by relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net with ESMTP; 24 Mar 2009 20:38:09 +0000 Received: from [87.115.34.174] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LmDNx-00057T-AP for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:38:09 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] questions Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:44:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <364f41440903241242v6dd2244fkbbd1ea8e3b20af60@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <364f41440903241242v6dd2244fkbbd1ea8e3b20af60@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903242044.10029.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 6206301159eba6ae324b7b7a9dc73abe X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 parser:01 pxp:01 bindings:01 wiki:01 2009:98 prince:98 expat:98 searchable:98 propaganda:98 frog:98 beginners:01 beginners:01 wrote:01 I'll answer the questions that I can... On Tuesday 24 March 2009 19:42:40 John Prince wrote: > I'm new to ocaml and coming (most recently) from ruby, so I was wondering > if there are equivalents to some of the things that I find handy in ruby: You may find the OCaml Beginners mailing list hosted by Yahoo to be more productive for simple questions. > 2) Is there something like 'ri' in ocaml? (commandline access to basic > documentation) I highly recommend ocamlbrowser but it is not CLI. > 3) Is there consensus on the best/fastest xml parser? I use XML-Light whenever it can handle it (it supports only a small part of XML but is very easy to use) and PXP otherwise. You might also check out the well-reputed Expat bindings but I have not tried them. > Where is the message archive located? For this list, here: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/index.en.html > Is it searchable? Google indexes it well. > Can someone point me to the best resource(s) for newbies? Start at the community OCaml tutorial wiki and search the links therein. http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/ There is some interesting propaganda here: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/benefits/ > I have been reading through what's out there, but its always nice to get a > recommendation. Two beginners books are my own "OCaml for Scientists" and Tim Rentsch's "The Objective CAML Programming Language". Hopefully Jason Hickey's book will be published this year. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e