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From: Damien Guichard <alphablock@orange.fr>
To: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A student feedback on OCaml
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:47:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f25031e1-18fa-1cee-59e1-f1480270ea24@orange.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4cc9b6d-31f5-09c4-bb00-a07908562787@cms.caltech.edu>

Does anyone teach programming using EasyOCaml ?

http://easyocaml.forge.ocamlcore.org/

And most importantly : does EasyOCaml  have a better adhesion potential 
than plain OCaml ?

Regards,

-- damien guichard


Michael C Vanier a écrit :
> It's a cute drawing.  It's hard to know more without any context.  I 
> teach both Python and OCaml to undergraduates, but the students have 
> to learn Python first (to get a firm grasp on basic programming).  My 
> experience with OCaml (which I vastly prefer to Python) is that it's 
> polarizing.  Some students absolutely love it, but others struggle 
> with the language and have a hard time getting their programs to 
> compile even after weeks of effort. Such students are obviously going 
> to prefer other languages.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 7/25/17 4:35 PM, Christophe Raffalli wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is a student feedback:
>>
>> https://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~raffalli/pics/caml-versus-python.png
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christophe
>
>


      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-07-27 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-25 20:35 Christophe Raffalli
2017-07-25 20:49 ` Viet Le
2017-07-25 20:52   ` Oliver Bandel
2017-07-25 21:12     ` [Caml-list] Probabilistic Functional Programming Van Chan Ngo
2017-07-26  0:06       ` Francois BERENGER
2017-07-26 14:58         ` Van Chan Ngo
2017-07-28 15:47           ` Oleg
2017-07-26 10:36 ` [Caml-list] A student feedback on OCaml Soegtrop, Michael
2017-07-27 16:48 ` Michael C Vanier
2017-07-27 17:34   ` Gary Trakhman
2017-07-27 18:47   ` Damien Guichard [this message]

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