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Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity
- Daniel M. Albro
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| From: | Daniel M. Albro <albro@h...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity |
Someone (sorry, deleted the email before I could use it to respond) mentioned that they had thought that the first edition of SICP used Lisp (this isn't true, by the way -- I used the first edition when I took 6.001 way back when and it was Scheme). Maybe you were thinking of _The_Little_Lisper_, which has since changed to _The_Little_Schemer_ (with the sequel _The_Seasoned_Schemer_). That book is a pretty good introduction to functional programming, by the way, albeit a bit mind-bending when it starts going into Y-Combinators and stuff like that. I still haven't managed to finish _The_Seasoned_Schemer_. They have a book called "_The_Little_MLer_" that talks about ML and has a section on how to convert their code into OCaml, but it's not really as good as the Scheme version; it spends too much time on the specifics of ML, really. Maybe that's appropriate, but then it should be longer so they can get all of the nice lambda calculus in. -- Daniel M. Albro <albro@humnet.ucla.edu> ------------------- 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