From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by walapai.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id p9EBoSIP006748 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:50:28 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiYBAJwgmE7RVdivkGdsb2JhbABDoSYBhy8IIgEBAQEJCQ0HFAQhgVMBAQEBAgESAiwBGx0BAwELBgUEBzshAQERAQUBHAYTIodcCJonCotRgmCFHz2IbwIEBodnBJN3ii2CfD2DcQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,346,1315173600"; d="scan'208";a="124115969" Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com ([209.85.216.175]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 14 Oct 2011 13:50:22 +0200 Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so1075393qyk.6 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:50:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=O7aIVnr1cKeRWVeAbITInFpvKxbT2e7rW1GRcVD+ApQ=; b=bFFJXG/CZKKa5krXJJCueBtXq6oz9YYn+xeRAlRmVCKeEdNnOnn6DyPeuCLJBZuFki vaekIIuND2UFQPwQDXMAdGmTB/7KRyYAnH0qpnp7S+/RqN+yJ8Wq/sbpZ8qYJlxPMBgv jKT3LKBiCDSmZuXQeEIpkO0oEiRtJ5hwp/hEE= Received: by 10.229.19.76 with SMTP id z12mr1682965qca.272.1318593021169; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:50:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.44.211 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:50:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4E8B826E.2090904@frisch.fr> From: Jean Krivine Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: To: Nicolas Bros Cc: "caml-list@inria.fr" , Adam Richardson Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e64f69e6a14e8804af40dcc5 Subject: Re: [Caml-list] 'OCaml For the Masses' on Slashdot --0016e64f69e6a14e8804af40dcc5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 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 "D=E9veloppement > d'applications avec Objective Caml": > http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/Livres/ora/DA-OCAML/index.html > http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2841771210 > --0016e64f69e6a14e8804af40dcc5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In the comments:
"Procedural=20 programming is easier for humans to understand: most of us do no not=20 think in a way that maps easily to functional programming. =09 "

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 hav= e great sales on Amazon (I'd buy it :)
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You may want to read this book :

It is the english translation of the french book "= D=E9veloppement d'applications avec Objective Caml":

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