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Date: | 2009-04-02 (08:06) |
From: | Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@i...> |
Subject: | Re: LLC book [was: Questions] |
>> It could be nice to translate it in English, at least to have a >> larger base of readers, and adapt the examples from Caml Light to >> Objective Caml (I don't know how much the syntaxes differ though) > > The syntax is very close for the subset of Caml used in the book. Right. Parts of the standard library changed, though. > However, judging from the lack of availability of this book even in > French, there might an issue in the agreement between the authors > (Leroy & Weis) and the publisher. I'm suspecting the authors are > unable to re-publish the book elsewhere. The publisher (Dunod) holds all rights except for an English translation (Pierre Weis and I reserved those rights). There is a procedure to ask the publisher to relinquish its rights if it decides not to print the book again, but that procedure can take up to 1 year (!). All in all, I'm not sure it's worth the effort to resurrect this old text, but if a group of motivated volunteers arise, let's discuss it privately. - Xavier Leroy