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| From: | Jon Harrop <jon@f...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] Re: LLC book [was: Questions] |
On Thursday 02 April 2009 13:41:01 Ed Keith wrote: > Having said that, I currently have some free time time and would be willing > to offer my assistance to this project. It would give me the opportunity to > hone my writing and ocaml skills, and I believe as an experienced > professional programmer (I have worked in government, military, finance, > medicine, aviation, and research) and ocaml newbie I could bring a useful > perspective to the project. > > I hope I can be of service, I think the existing books cover the core parts of the language well so there is no need for further work in that area but I would like to see books covering the following topics: . Batteries (!). . Libraries, e.g. LablGTK. . Post 3.10 camlp4. . Other tools, e.g. menhir, dpygen, bitstrings, micmatch. There are also some areas where I think today's OCaml software could be improved: . Automatic FFI stub JIT compilation using LLVM. . OpenGL 3 bindings. . GUI libraries. . IDEs (probably depends upon GUI libraries). -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e