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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Some comments on recent discussions

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:18:18PM +0100, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
[...]
> In the context of engineers-friendly OCaml learning document that
> could possibly warrant translation, there is also Maxence Guesdon's
> "Introduction au langage OCaml". I see it as a well-presented subset
> of the Oreilly book, for people that do not need a complete reference
> but only a reasonable first taste of the language.
[...]


A first taste?

I think there are a lot of first-taste docs.

One is in part I of the OCaml manual, starting with section 3:

  http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual003.html

Just some minutes ago I found a german starter doc (I think from
a lecture/workshop):
  http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~c703463/ocaml/ocamlkurs.pdf

OCaml on youtube: :-)
  OCaml-Tutorial: Polymorphie und Kombinatoren
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEML3QIP2sA

I remember some web-tutorials also,
even I just do not have the links available.



But a good book would need to be more than just
"a first taste" of the language, or a printed
mix of intro-docs.



Ciao,
   Oliver