From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p9ECUvXH008622 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:30:57 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtcCADcrmE7AbSoIe2dsb2JhbABDhHWUVI8VIgEBFiYEIYFTAQEFIw8BOwsQCwkPAgIJHQICFA0LGRgTEoduBqVqkXYOgR6BeIM1M2EEjGqROocq X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,346,1315173600"; d="scan'208";a="124122448" Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 14 Oct 2011 14:30:28 +0200 X-Envelope-From: oliver@first.in-berlin.de Received: from first (e178007026.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.178.7.26]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id p9ECUQro012830; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:30:26 +0200 Received: by first (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 91306154083D; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:30:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:30:26 +0200 From: oliver To: Jean Krivine Cc: Nicolas Bros , "caml-list@inria.fr" , Adam Richardson Message-ID: <20111014123026.GB5174@siouxsie> References: <4E8B826E.2090904@frisch.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 'OCaml For the Masses' on Slashdot There is a theory (or just hypothesis) on different brains and therefore thinking styles: predictive vs. functional. So... maybe, if these ways of thinking are "built in" into the brains (genetically?), then some people will be functional programmers and others not ;-) Ciao, Oliver On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 01:50:01PM +0200, Jean Krivine wrote: > In the comments: > "Procedural programming is easier for humans to understand: most of us do no > not think in a way that maps easily to functional programming. " > > That a very functional thought to me :) > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Nicolas Bros wrote: > > > If a great OCaml guru/teacher wrote a great book, I'm sure it would have > >> great sales on Amazon (I'd buy it :) > > > > > > You may want to read this book : > > http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html > > > > It is the english translation of the french book "Développement > > d'applications avec Objective Caml": > > http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/Livres/ora/DA-OCAML/index.html > > http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2841771210 > > > > -- > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: > https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs >