From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434D4BC88 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:37:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j138b2wE031579 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:37:03 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25798 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:37:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from alsace.u-strasbg.fr (alsace.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.100.1]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j138b29S031575 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:37:02 +0100 Received: from [130.79.100.113] (brucher@larzac.u-strasbg.fr [130.79.100.113]) by alsace.u-strasbg.fr (8.9.3 (PHNE_25183+JAGae58098)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26509 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 09:37:01 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <4201E339.2020409@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:39:21 +0100 From: Matthieu Brucher User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Caml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Estimating the size of the ocaml community References: <891bd33905020213315a2ebb18@mail.gmail.com> <8008871f05020213362d21ba87@mail.gmail.com> <000f01c50971$baad4840$0100a8c0@mshome.net> <4201E27F.3050307@yahoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <4201E27F.3050307@yahoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4201E2AE.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4201E2AE.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; matthieu:01 matthieu:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 gava:01 ocaml:01 sml:01 gava:01 ...:98 caml:02 caml:02 classe:02 functional:02 functional:02 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: sejourne_kevin wrote: > Frédéric Gava a écrit : > >> Hi, > > [...] > >> >> I think that "all" French Universities use OCaml to teach >> functional programming (some of them use Scheme or SML depending of the >> years and/or the teachers). Ocaml is also used in "Classe préparatoires", >> special schools in France to be engineers. >> >> I also heard that Ocaml is sometime teach in Italian Universities but >> I am >> not sure. >> >> Regards, >> Frédéric Gava > > > In my master the only students who know a functional language are those > which come from the 'université de Paris XI'. Even the engineer which > has make a preparatory class are unaware of this kind of language. > But there is only an half of students who are french and 5 on 98 who > come from 'université de Paris XI'. > > > Regards, > Kévin. In the French classes préparatoires, those who learn CaML have taken the option IT. Few people are selected to choose between IT and engineer sciences. But those who could choose IT know about CaML. Matthieu