From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id TAA14031; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:28:16 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA14025 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:28:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f56HSEL22569 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:28:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from checkerlap.d6.com ([64.163.212.163]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GEI00IP6R6QO9@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for caml-list@inria.fr; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 10:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:30:16 -0700 From: Chris Hecker Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml complexity In-reply-to: <20010606095041.A93623@caddr.com> X-Sender: def6@shell16.ba.best.com To: Miles Egan , caml-list@inria.fr Message-id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010606101946.02a94b00@shell16.ba.best.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk >Have others had similar experiences? I suspect most of the readers of this list >are better-than-average programmers. How difficult have you found it to be to >teach Ocaml to your colleagues? Any suggestions on a simple pedagogy for >bringing more junior people abreast of subjects as esoteric as polymorphic >recursive types? I agree that Ocaml is big and powerful, and I even think it's kind of ugly. ;) However, I've been learning it in stages so I don't agree with your statement about not being able to use subsets. Features I'm using: closures, local and anonymous functions, libraries, imperative stuff, experimenting with higher order functions (but usually just 1st order (2nd?), where a function takes a function), tiny bit of currying, genlex parsers, nested data structures Features I'm not using right now: objects, heavy modules, functors, streams (besides simple genlex things), heavy duty polymorphism, threads, lazy I haven't taught anyone to use Ocaml completely, but I've walked non-functional (!) programmers through my code and they seem like they could get it. Chris ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr. Archives: http://caml.inria.fr