Re: [Caml-list] new user - old questions

[Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka@gmail.com>]

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Check ocaml.org, there are tutorials, references, and book suggestions. I
bootstrapped myself with a tutorial, then read through language spec. Ocaml
is thankfully not a complicated language to get productive with.

/M
 On Dec 24, 2012 1:30 PM, "Gour" <gour@atmarama.net> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Some years ago I was looking for adequate language for one open-source
> project to be done in free time and although I took a look at OCaml,
> somehow, I didn't like syntax and went playing with Haskell.
>
> Never really grokked monads and had feeling that despite nice syntax,
> some things are more complicated for pragmatic programming than they
> should be.
>
> I managed to scare enough few potential contributors and had to
> postpone the project for 'sometime in the future'.
>
> Later, I was exploring D (v2), but it seems that the language is never
> finished, code breaks often from one version to another, poor GUI
> bindings support etc.
>
> Shortly thought about using Python+Cython, but dynamic language never
> sounded right for my project.
>
> In utter despair I went to evaluate Ada which seems as nice (a bit
> verbose) language, mature, actively developed, good ecosystem, but
> somehow I was missing lack of FP features.
>
> For a short time I took a look at Nimrod - nice & interesting language,
> but very small community and lack of FP features.
>
> Then, I do not know exactly how, I got inspired to take a look at OCaml
> and in a very short time, I could see that there is a language with
> quite OK syntax, actively developed, not small community enabling me to
> use FP language with thinking too much about monads and category theory
> in order to do practical things.
>
> The remaining thing is to get hints how to proceed, iow.:
>
> a) Real World Ocaml is going to be released in Oct 2013, so I wonder is
> there any online/paperback book you can recommend? I'm on Debian wheezy
> which means no 4.0 yet, but probably we'll try to take advantage of new
> features in due course of time
>
> b) it looks that Emacs is the best-supported editor for OCaml. How is
> support in Vim/Geany? What do you recommend?
>
> Now I wonder about Typerex which looks cool, but I was told on #ocaml
> that it's "dead project" and was recommended to use tuareg mode?
>
> That's actually everything or most important...editor & good book to
> start with?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
>
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