RE: Reverse-Engineering Bytecode: A Possible Commercial Objection To O'Caml

From: Brent Fulgham (brent.fulgham@xpsystems.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 18:13:54 MET DST

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    > > I'm in the process of reading "The Functional Approach
    > > to Programming" (Cousineau & Mauny). This book is not
    > > strictly OCaml
    >
    > That's part of the problem. People here are short of time:
    > while education in functional programming techniques is
    > useful, a description of Ocaml is more pointed: remember,
    > Ocaml is _not_ a functional programming language, but an
    > Algol like language with functional, procedural, and object
    > oriented components... just like C++.
    >
    > In ocaml, the 'orientation' is more functional, but the biggest
    > obstacle isn't the functional paradigm as such, but the actual
    > concrete syntax used.
    >
    Yes. An O'Reilly-style "Nutshell" handbook would be quite nice.
    However, I have not seen such an animal. I'm afraid the C&M book
    is all that's available for those of us whose French skills are
    sub-par.

    It will probably take a killer app to get such a book published...

    -Brent

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