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From: Brent Fulgham <brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com>
To: Chris Hecker <checker@d6.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: RE: Seeking pratical tutorial or examples.
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:21:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EDFD2A95EE7DD31187350090279C67670102954B@THRESHER> (raw)

> >Could it be that your mind is merely reeling from the unfamiliar 
> >functional programming paradigm?  Those of use "raised" in the school
> >of procedural C programming, or working in the Dot-Com trenches in
> >Perl are used to thinking in terms of step 1, step2, ..., etc.
> 
> Uh, speaking for myself, I think this comment is a really 
> good way to turn off people interested in exploring ocaml.  
> There's a difference between "my mind is reeling" and "I'm 
> trying to figure out where I need to put a damn semicolon".
>

Yikes -- I can see my attempt at humor was a dud.  I was just trying
to see if his problems were similar to the confusion I felt when
dealing with functional programming after many years using the
procedural style.  I apologize if I've offended anyone!  :-\
 
> The fact of the matter is that there is a certain amount of 
> logistical stuff one has to do to get a program to compile in 
> any new language.  We're (or I am) asking for examples of 
> that in the main docs.  I had to go download a bunch of 
> sample programs from unrelated sites to see how to do it.
> 
By all means -- if the information is not easily found, it should
be included in the documentation.

-Brent



             reply	other threads:[~2000-10-18  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-17 19:21 Brent Fulgham [this message]
     [not found] <20001019101803A.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
2000-10-19 19:02 ` Francisco Reyes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-16 21:46 Brent Fulgham
2000-10-17 10:10 ` Francisco Reyes
2000-10-17 17:51 ` Chris Hecker
2000-10-18  5:58   ` Francisco Reyes
2000-10-14 15:59 OCaml sync tool for Rex organizer bcpierce
2000-10-16  0:52 ` Seeking pratical tutorial or examples Francisco Reyes
2000-10-16  5:42   ` Alan Schmitt
2000-10-16 11:20     ` Francisco Reyes
2000-10-16  7:49   ` Pierre Weis
2000-10-16 17:57     ` Chris Hecker
2000-10-17 17:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2000-10-18  5:52       ` Francisco Reyes
2000-10-18  7:20         ` Chris Hecker
2000-10-18 13:31         ` Stephan Houben

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