Translating the unix course

Translating the unix course

[Daniel Bünzli]

By the way each time I need to use the unix module my failing  
knowledge of system programming is relieved by the unix course of  
Leroy and Remy. This is such a good documentation of ocaml's unix  
module it's a shame it isn't available in the lingua franca of  
programmers. Apparently there have been unsucessful atempts to  
translate it [2] . If the authors wouldn't mind putting the original  
on cocan.org or ocaml-tutorial.org maybe this would eventually happen.

Daniel

[1] http://cristal.inria.fr/~remy/poly/system/camlunix/index.html
[2] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2004/03/31275f2948892d4add345c9bbe81fea5.fr.html

Re: [Caml-list] Translating the unix course

[Oliver Bandel]

Hello,

Zitat von Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>:

> By the way each time I need to use the unix module my failing
> knowledge of system programming
[...]


Best ressource on Unix-Programming: APUE

http://www.kohala.com/start/apue.html


Ciao,
   Oliver

Re: [Caml-list] Translating the unix course

[Florent Monnier]

> By the way each time I need to use the unix module my failing
> knowledge of system programming is relieved by the unix course of
> Leroy and Remy. This is such a good documentation of ocaml's unix
> module it's a shame it isn't available in the lingua franca of
> programmers. Apparently there have been unsucessful atempts to
> translate it [2] . If the authors wouldn't mind putting the original
> on cocan.org or ocaml-tutorial.org maybe this would eventually happen.
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] http://cristal.inria.fr/~remy/poly/system/camlunix/index.html
> [2]
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2004/03/31275f2948892d4add34
>5c9bbe81fea5.fr.html

I have recently read several chapters of this documentation, I found it is of 
really good quality. There are no equivalent in English because most Unix doc 
is for C, so while reading it I was thinking that I would be pleased to 
traduct it in English (well perhaps not all because it's huge, but at least 
some chapters). The result would be written in my usual poor English but then 
it would be easy for an English born guy to correct it.

But unfortunatly this documentation is not GFDL released or so, it is 
copyrighted so it is currently not allowed to touch it.

Re: [Caml-list] Translating the unix course

[Daniel Bünzli]

Le 13 nov. 08 à 21:22, Florent Monnier a écrit :

> I was thinking that I would be pleased to traduct it in English  
> (well perhaps not all because it's huge, but at least
> some chapters). The result would be written in my usual poor English  
> but then it would be easy for an English born guy to correct it.

Yes, I'm suggesting a collaborative effort, as happened for the  
Oreilly book (cf. credits here [1]). If the authors care about having  
more control on the output we could do it via a more formal process  
than on a wiki. Actually working with the original latex sources I  
would be willing to translate a chapter and coordinate the whole  
process.

Best,

Daniel

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/

Re: [Caml-list] Translating the unix course

[Didier Remy]

Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> 
> Le 13 nov. 08 à 21:22, Florent Monnier a écrit :
> 
>> I was thinking that I would be pleased to traduct it in English (well 
>> perhaps not all because it's huge, but at least
>> some chapters). The result would be written in my usual poor English 
>> but then it would be easy for an English born guy to correct it.
> 
> Yes, I'm suggesting a collaborative effort, as happened for the Oreilly 
> book (cf. credits here [1]). If the authors care about having more 
> control on the output we could do it via a more formal process than on a 
> wiki. Actually working with the original latex sources I would be 
> willing to translate a chapter and coordinate the whole process.

Dear Daniel,

Xavier and I would be happy to see our course notes translated, of course.
We would then license them appropriately.  We are thinking of a "Creative
Commons" license of the kind "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
United States" (See http://creativecommons.org/license/).  We could also
provide the source code.

If you or someone else is willing to take responsability for such a project,
please contact us.

Best wishes,

         Didier