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=0.1 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 6558CBBC4 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:12:33 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Au0AAP4j0knUnwdjd2dsb2JhbACCIpNoAQwLCAkOB7gXg3oG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,431,1233529200"; d="scan'208";a="26747208" Received: from relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net ([212.159.7.99]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 31 Mar 2009 23:12:33 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsFAP4j0knUnw6R/2dsb2JhbACCIsw9g3oG Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net ([212.159.14.145]) by relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 31 Mar 2009 22:12:32 +0100 Received: from [87.112.10.166] (helo=leper.local) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1LolG4-0004zV-DZ for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:12:32 +0100 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] questions Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:18:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <364f41440903241242v6dd2244fkbbd1ea8e3b20af60@mail.gmail.com> <3091E0E6-226B-4F4A-A78C-E523C250B8D5@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3091E0E6-226B-4F4A-A78C-E523C250B8D5@osu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903312218.46142.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: ac7d57832dd1eee6bbf772249f76738b X-Spam: no; 0.00; fwiw:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 2009:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 authors:03 authors:03 profitable:94 manual:06 manual:06 probably:07 respectively:07 rather:08 On Tuesday 31 March 2009 14:37:05 Kuba Ober wrote: > There must be some reason why the manual and other materials on the > official site are of such poor quality. FWIW, I think the OCaml manual is superb and under-appreciated. > Jon's > book, and Marcelo DiPierro's web2py book. Both are very good books > because the authors have a feel for what it takes to understand what > they talk about. Yet both miss out on some newer features of OCaml and > web2py, respectively -- features that would be best explained by the > very same authors! My work is driven by profit, of course, and I believe it is substantially more profitable to publish new books on related fringe topics where there is little or no competition (e.g. F#, Scala, Clojure) rather than write a second edition of an existing book like OCaml for Scientists. I am currently writing another F# book but only because we do not publish one yet. After that, I'll probably turn to another language but that may very well be HLVM if I can develop it quickly enough... -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e