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.

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Brian


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