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Date: | 2004-11-26 (00:10) |
From: | Martin Berger <martinb@d...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Experiences with learning OCaml? |
i have to disagree. while SICP is a brilliant book that i used to teach myself programming from (and nothing i learned as an undergraduate really went beyond), these days, i'd recommend Ocaml to beginners. scheme has one VERY BIG problem: it is untyped (in the sense of static type checking). thinking about types properly is such an important factor in becoming a good programmer. it seems to me that there is little one can learn from scheme that one couldn't learn from ocaml, and probably learn better. martin