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 WAA06747; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:20:49 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA07707 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:20:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from herd.plethora.net (herd.plethora.net [205.166.146.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i5FKKkSH020585 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:20:47 +0200 Received: from bhurt.plethora.net (bhurt.plethora.net [205.166.146.49]) by herd.plethora.net (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id i5FKKci01758; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:20:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:26:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Brian Hurt X-X-Sender: bhurt@localhost.localdomain To: John Hughes cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] More or bignums/ints In-Reply-To: <20040611193818.0A43457251@twix.cs.brown.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 40CF5A1E.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 bignums:01 bignums:01 ints:01 ocaml:01 ocaml:01 sml:01 wrote:03 scheme:03 redirect:95 curiosity:05 i'd:06 brian:06 brian:06 fri:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, John Hughes wrote: > I've read the May interchange in CWN that started with the question > > > I have made a web search to understand which kind of support for > > bignums is available for OCaml... > > and found it interesting. I'll be teaching a few weeks of ML as part > of a first-year course at Brown University, and we've used SML in > previous years. By the way, how well does this work? Just out of curiosity. I've never taught beginning anything to anyone, so I know diddly squat about about what works and what doesn't work. That said, I think I'd rather teach Ocaml as a first language than either C++ or Java, but I think Scheme might be an even better language than Ocaml as a first language. -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford 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