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 VAA24814; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:42:24 +0100 (MET) 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 VAA24273 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:42:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail11.speakeasy.net (mail11.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.211]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g0OKgM522113 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:42:22 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 3912 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 20:42:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kronstadt) ([64.81.49.223]) (envelope-sender ) by mail11.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Jan 2002 20:42:20 -0000 Received: from itz by kronstadt with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16TqhQ-0002tb-00 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:42:20 -0800 To: caml-list@inria.fr (OCAML) Subject: [Caml-list] gotchas [Was: toplevels] References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020122124034.026d1750@arda.pair.com> <20020121224336.GA17642@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <1011655678.3c4ca3fe74235@webmail.sbdconsultors.com> <20020121224336.GA17642@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <4.3.2.7.2.20020122124034.026d1750@arda.pair.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020123011902.00cde840@arda.pair.com> <1011778534.638.11.camel@node89> From: Ian Zimmerman Date: 24 Jan 2002 12:42:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1011778534.638.11.camel@node89> Message-ID: <86lmenxyz8.fsf_-_@speakeasy.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Christian> Ocaml deserve to be used by far more people, it's a really Christian> interesting language. But you will agree with me that it's Christian> difficult to apprehend. It's done by researchers, lack Christian> some documentation (especially in English I can't complain Christian> the book on Ocaml in French is on the web). Basically the Christian> first step is the harder. You make it sound as if ML were the frontier of research .. surely not. ML has been around for about as long as Unix, and more revolutionary languages like Haskell approach a decade in existence. Christian> I think I'm gonna do a gotcha page, but don't you think Christian> such a page deserve his place on caml.inria.fr ? It alredy exists: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng.html At least 2 of your 3 problems are addressed there, and in its companion FAQ_EXPERT. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 In his own soul a man bears the source from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys. Sophocles. ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr