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* New french book on Objective Caml
@ 2000-04-26  9:57 David Mentré
  2000-04-26 17:11 ` miles
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From: David Mentré @ 2000-04-26  9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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 == short english ==

I haven't seen any announcement here, maybe I've missed it. O'Reilly
France have published an new book on OCaml in french :

 Développement d'applications avec Objective CAML
  http://www.editions-oreilly.fr/catalogue/ocaml.html

I don't know if it will be translated in english.

 == français ==

Je n'ai pas vu d'annonce mais j'ai pu la manquer. Les éditions O'Reilly
viennent de publier un ouvrage sur OCaml :

 Développement d'applications avec Objective CAML
  http://www.editions-oreilly.fr/catalogue/ocaml.html

Description

  Dernier-né de la famille Caml, Objective Caml est l'un des langages
  fonctionnels les plus intéressants du moment, qui allie programmation
  fonctionnelle, impérative, et orientée objet.

  Outre les avantages bien connus des langages fonctionnels, on y trouve
  tout ce qui fait l'attrait des langages modernes, notamment son modèle
  objet original, ses fonctionnalités de multithreading, d'accès réseau,
  etc. Par ailleurs, le typage statique, l'inférence de type, ou le
  mécanisme de traitement des exceptions, combinées à une gestion
  automatique de la mémoire le rangent définitivement dans la catégorie
  des langages ultra-puissants.

  Cet ouvrage vous dira tout sur Objective Caml et vous permettra de
  réaliser des applications étonnamment efficaces :

  o La partie I est consacrée au noyau du langage. Les notions étudiées
    débouchent sur l'écriture d'un interprète BASIC complet ou d'un jeu
    de « démineur ».

  o La partie II aborde les outils de développement. Après avoir passé
    en revue les bibliothèques, les différents outils d'analyse ou
    l'interopérabilité avec C, on y apprend notamment à construire une
    interface graphique complexe.

  o La partie III montre comment organiser des applications en Objective
    Caml. On y parle de modules et d'objets, et les applications
    étudiées incluent des jeux à deux joueurs comme Puissance 4 ou la
    programmation de robots.

  o La partie IV a pour thème concurrence et répartition. Il y est donc
    question de threads, de pipes, et autres sockets, qui conduisent
    naturellement à la programmation de servlets ou au développement de
    clients et serveurs HTTP.

  Diffusé librement par ses créateurs de l'INRIA (sous licences LGPL et
  QPL), la distribution officielle d'Objective Caml s'installe sans
  difficulté aussi bien sur Unix que sur Windows.

  Le CD-ROM inclus dans cet ouvrage contient non seulement les toutes
  dernières versions (sources et binaires) d'Objective Caml, mais aussi
  les sources complets du livre en HTML, les solutions aux exercices, et
  de nombreux programmes et outils, parmi lesquels le fameux HEVEA
  (convertisseur LaTeX -> HTML).


(j'aime bien l'appellation de langage « ultra-puissant » :-)

(comme je ne fait pas partie des auteurs, de leur organisme ni des gens
 qui développement ocaml, je suis libre de toute publicité ;)

(je ne l'ai pas lu, mais a priori, rien sur les labels : dommage alors
 que la version 3.00 vient juste de sortir)<--+
                                              |
d.                                            |
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 La critique est facile, l'Art est difficile -+
 Opinions expressed here are only mine.




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* Re: New french book on Objective Caml
  2000-04-26  9:57 New french book on Objective Caml David Mentré
@ 2000-04-26 17:11 ` miles
  2000-04-27 12:23   ` Thorsten Ohl
  2000-04-26 17:37 ` Markus Mottl
  2000-04-27 15:00 ` Brian Rogoff
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: miles @ 2000-04-26 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: caml-list; +Cc: caml-list

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:57:09AM +0200, David Mentré wrote:
>  == short english ==
> 
> I haven't seen any announcement here, maybe I've missed it. O'Reilly
> France have published an new book on OCaml in french :
> 
>  Développement d'applications avec Objective CAML
>   http://www.editions-oreilly.fr/catalogue/ocaml.html
> 
> I don't know if it will be translated in english.

Please!  Someone has to translate this.  I'll probably buy it even if there is
no translation just to have an O'Reilly OCaml book.

-- 
miles at caddr dot com




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* Re: New french book on Objective Caml
  2000-04-26  9:57 New french book on Objective Caml David Mentré
  2000-04-26 17:11 ` miles
@ 2000-04-26 17:37 ` Markus Mottl
  2000-04-26 18:40   ` miles
  2000-04-27 15:00 ` Brian Rogoff
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Markus Mottl @ 2000-04-26 17:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Mentré; +Cc: OCAML

> I haven't seen any announcement here, maybe I've missed it. O'Reilly
> France have published an new book on OCaml in french :
> 
>  Développement d'applications avec Objective CAML
>   http://www.editions-oreilly.fr/catalogue/ocaml.html
> 
> I don't know if it will be translated in english.

It would be really great if there were a translation to English (and other
languages)! May I suggest that we express our interest to O'Reilly so that
they see that there is a large number of people who would like to purchase
such translations? The (relative) lack of books is surely one of the
reasons that OCaml is not (yet) so widespread.

The e-mail address of the French branch seems to be:  france@oreilly.com

I am not sure, but maybe this address is better:

  nuts@oreilly.com     - for general questions and information

I'll try the latter one (the "nuts" in it appeals to me ;-)...

Best regards,
Markus Mottl

-- 
Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl




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* Re: New french book on Objective Caml
  2000-04-26 17:37 ` Markus Mottl
@ 2000-04-26 18:40   ` miles
  2000-04-27 13:36     ` Thorsten Ohl
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: miles @ 2000-04-26 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: caml-list

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 07:37:58PM +0200, Markus Mottl wrote:
> It would be really great if there were a translation to English (and other
> languages)! May I suggest that we express our interest to O'Reilly so that
> they see that there is a large number of people who would like to purchase
> such translations? The (relative) lack of books is surely one of the
> reasons that OCaml is not (yet) so widespread.
> 
> The e-mail address of the French branch seems to be:  france@oreilly.com
> 
> I am not sure, but maybe this address is better:
> 
>   nuts@oreilly.com     - for general questions and information
> 
> I'll try the latter one (the "nuts" in it appeals to me ;-)...
> 
> Best regards,
> Markus Mottl
> 
> -- 
> Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl

I don't suppose this book covers the new Labl features, does it?

-- 
miles at caddr dot com




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* Re: New french book on Objective Caml
  2000-04-26 17:11 ` miles
@ 2000-04-27 12:23   ` Thorsten Ohl
  2000-05-02  9:54     ` David Mentré
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Ohl @ 2000-04-27 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: caml-list

miles@caddr.com writes:

> I'll probably buy it even if there is no translation just to have an
> O'Reilly OCaml book.

Has anybody bought the book outside of France yet?  German and US
online booktores don't list it and I could even find it at www.bol.fr.
The online version looks very nice, but from time to time, I still
prefer the old fashioned user interface of books ...

Cheers,
-Thorsten
-- 
Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TU Darmstadt -- ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de
http://heplix.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ [<=== PGP public key here]




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* Re: New french book on Objective Caml
  2000-04-26 18:40   ` miles
@ 2000-04-27 13:36     ` Thorsten Ohl
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From: Thorsten Ohl @ 2000-04-27 13:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: miles; +Cc: caml-list

miles  <miles@caddr.com> writes:

> I don't suppose this book covers the new Labl features, does it?

According to 

   http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/Livres/ora/DA-OCAML/index.html

there is a _very_ brief appendix, using the 2.99 syntax.
-- 
Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TU Darmstadt -- ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de
http://heplix.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ohl/ [<=== PGP public key here]




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* Re: New french book on Objective Caml
  2000-04-26  9:57 New french book on Objective Caml David Mentré
  2000-04-26 17:11 ` miles
  2000-04-26 17:37 ` Markus Mottl
@ 2000-04-27 15:00 ` Brian Rogoff
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Brian Rogoff @ 2000-04-27 15:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Mentré; +Cc: caml-list

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On 26 Apr 2000, David[iso-8859-1]  Mentré wrote:
> (j'aime bien l'appellation de langage « ultra-puissant » :-)

I like it too, and I hope that if the book gets translated that this comes 
along and doesn't get translated to "ultra-powerful", since "puissant" is
infrequently utilized in English. I do realize that "power" is also a loan 
word from French, but "OCaml, An Ultra-Puissant Language" sounds just too 
good to resist.

-- Brian




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* Re: New french book on Objective Caml
  2000-04-27 12:23   ` Thorsten Ohl
@ 2000-05-02  9:54     ` David Mentré
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: David Mentré @ 2000-05-02  9:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ohl; +Cc: caml-list

Thorsten Ohl <ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:

> Has anybody bought the book outside of France yet?  German and US

Try at http://www.lmet.fr  (Le Monde En Tique)

I've checked, it is in there database. 

Best regards,
d.
-- 
 David.Mentre@irisa.fr -- http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/
 Opinions expressed here are only mine.




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