book "Le langage Caml"

book "Le langage Caml"

[Xavier Leroy]

A few months ago, there was a discussion on this list about
"Le langage Caml", an early book on Caml (Light) programming written
by Pierre Weis and I.  The book was out of print, but the publisher,
Dunod Éditions, graciously agreed to relinquish its rights and give
them back to the authors.

Pierre and I are therefore happy to announce that the full text of the
book (2nd edition) is now available freely:

    http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/llc.pdf

There was a companion book, "Manuel de référence du langage Caml",
which is the French translation of the Caml Light 0.7 reference
manual.  For completeness, we also made it available:

   http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/manuel-cl.pdf

Both texts are distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
license.

Enjoy,

- Xavier Leroy

Re: [Caml-list] book "Le langage Caml"

[Gregory BELLIER]

Wonderful announcement !

This is a good news ! Thank you Dunod Éditions.
I guess those links will be easily accessible from the website from now on.

Grégory.


Xavier Leroy a écrit :
> A few months ago, there was a discussion on this list about
> "Le langage Caml", an early book on Caml (Light) programming written
> by Pierre Weis and I.  The book was out of print, but the publisher,
> Dunod Éditions, graciously agreed to relinquish its rights and give
> them back to the authors.
>
> Pierre and I are therefore happy to announce that the full text of the
> book (2nd edition) is now available freely:
>
>    http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/llc.pdf
>
> There was a companion book, "Manuel de référence du langage Caml",
> which is the French translation of the Caml Light 0.7 reference
> manual.  For completeness, we also made it available:
>
>   http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/manuel-cl.pdf
>
> Both texts are distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
> license.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> - Xavier Leroy
>
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Re: [Caml-list] book "Le langage Caml"

[blue storm]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Xavier Leroy<Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
> A few months ago, there was a discussion on this list about
> "Le langage Caml", an early book on Caml (Light) programming written
> by Pierre Weis and I.  The book was out of print, but the publisher,
> Dunod Éditions, graciously agreed to relinquish its rights and give
> them back to the authors.
>
> Pierre and I are therefore happy to announce that the full text of the
> book (2nd edition) is now available freely:
>
>   http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/llc.pdf
>
> There was a companion book, "Manuel de référence du langage Caml",
> which is the French translation of the Caml Light 0.7 reference
> manual.  For completeness, we also made it available:
>
>  http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/manuel-cl.pdf
>
> Both texts are distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
> license.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> - Xavier Leroy

That's great. This book is still, in my opinion, the best introduction
to Caml for programming beginners.

When we discussed the matter a few months ago [1], there was an
interest in an english translation, or an update to Objective Caml. A
translation would be a huge undertaking, but I suspect that updating
the book to Objective Caml should not be so difficult, and I would be
happy to collaborate to such an effort.

Is there a possibility to get the document in an editable format ?

[1] archive : http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/acbd0dfaec8f1e8e/8884d70558fa8ea2?lnk=gst&q=LLC+book#8884d70558fa8ea2

Re: [Caml-list] book "Le langage Caml"

[Zorg 421]

Great ! I don't need to steel it from my local technical library anymore !

;-)

Thanks.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Xavier Leroy<Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
> A few months ago, there was a discussion on this list about
> "Le langage Caml", an early book on Caml (Light) programming written
> by Pierre Weis and I.  The book was out of print, but the publisher,
> Dunod Éditions, graciously agreed to relinquish its rights and give
> them back to the authors.
>
> Pierre and I are therefore happy to announce that the full text of the
> book (2nd edition) is now available freely:
>
>   http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/llc.pdf
>
> There was a companion book, "Manuel de référence du langage Caml",
> which is the French translation of the Caml Light 0.7 reference
> manual.  For completeness, we also made it available:
>
>  http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/manuel-cl.pdf
>
> Both texts are distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
> license.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> - Xavier Leroy
>
> _______________________________________________
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> http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list
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> Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
>