From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id XAA02921; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:35:03 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03216 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:35:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from grace.speakeasy.org (grace.speakeasy.org [216.254.0.2]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id h0OMZ0v19120 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:35:01 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 3875 invoked by uid 36130); 24 Jan 2003 22:34:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jan 2003 22:34:59 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:34:58 -0800 (PST) From: brogoff@speakeasy.net To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jocelyn_S=E9rot?= cc: Mattias Waldau , "'Oliver Bandel'" , "caml-list@inria.fr" Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Books on FP In-Reply-To: <703DD5F8-2FBF-11D7-A4A2-0003934491C2@wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Jocelyn S=E9rot wrote: > Le vendredi, 24 jan 2003, =E0 16:55 Europe/Paris, Mattias Waldau a =E9cri= t : > > Cousineau and Mauny's "The Functional Approach to Programming" is okay, > > especially if want to program ocaml (even it has this stupid approach= =20 > > to > > have a slightly different syntax in the book, which is so common for > > books written by academics :-) The book was written a while ago, and translated, so there's no point in=20 getting snooty about the use of Caml Light instead of OCaml, which, I agree= , is unfortunate.=20 > > I am still looking for a bug like "Advanced tricks for the > > ML-programmer", something like "Advanced C++ Programming Styles and > > Idioms" > > by James O. Coplien. >=20 > So the Oreilly book may be a good choice .. I don't think that the O'Reilly book is such a book, though it's a great bo= ok=20 for the working OCaml programmer. What he's looking for would be more like a collection of Functional Pearls= =20 from the Journal of Functional Programming, with a focus on Caml (or at lea= st=20 non-Haskell :-) acrobatics. You know, things like Danvy's functional=20 unparsing paper... -- Brian ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners