On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 12:42 AM, oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:

>
> >
> > The OCaml Language Specification is most certainly not a document
> intended
> > for a beginner either to OCaml or functional programming - an obsessive
> > elimination of the word variable would likely make the text less clear
> to those
> > who will actually be reading it.
>
> OK, I see.
>
>
FWIW, I avoid calling them variables when teaching people who are not
math-savvy but already are C/Pascal/Python programmers (unfortunate
condition!) Using "familiar" terms can be an obstacle in that case.