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From: Jean Krivine <jean.krivine@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Bros <nicolas.bros@gmail.com>
Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>,
	Adam Richardson <simpleshot@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 'OCaml For the Masses' on Slashdot
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:50:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEQoNCmRVX=8P9Z0NhH729KeXiOc6Mt6H8_Ou4wC-_0t1pZDYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+WixbeMiankEnF20DV+=jHaWPwJWr=Vc+oBSWFx6FQB0dMyrg@mail.gmail.com>

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In the comments:
"Procedural programming is easier for humans to understand: most of us do no
not think in a way that maps easily to functional programming. "

That a very functional thought to me :)

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Nicolas Bros <nicolas.bros@gmail.com> wrote:

> If a great OCaml guru/teacher wrote a great book, I'm sure it would have
>> great sales on Amazon (I'd buy it :)
>
>
> You may want to read this book :
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html
>
> It is the english translation of the french book "Développement
> d'applications avec Objective Caml":
> http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/Livres/ora/DA-OCAML/index.html
> http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2841771210
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-14 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-04 22:02 Alain Frisch
2011-10-05  2:16 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2011-10-05  5:00 ` Adam Richardson
2011-10-06 17:05   ` Nicolas Bros
2011-10-14 11:50     ` Jean Krivine [this message]
2011-10-14 12:22       ` rixed
2011-10-14 12:30       ` oliver
2011-10-14 12:36         ` oliver
2011-10-15 10:25       ` Gerd Stolpmann

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