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To: Brian Hurt <brian.hurt@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:47:16PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
[...]
> Having *the* perfect introductory book is actually a detriment, as 
> it discourages other books from entering the field, thus reducing your 
> runnning foot total.  Likewise, being intuitive or easy to understand is 
> also a detriment, as this makes both for fewer books and for slimmer 
> books.  Much better to have multi-thousand page tomes (tombs?).  And 
> naturally, you can't measure running feet of web pages :-).


Having *NO* such an introductional book, and only
high-graded PhD-stuff, would you call this a
detriment too?

Ciao,
   Oliver

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