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Practical OCAML 3 years ago

I ordered this book pretty much immediately after hearing about it – There have been a number of bad reviews of it, but I think they’re pretty unfair.
It’s definitely not an introductory book on functional programming or even an introduction to OCAML itself – it tries to do pretty much what the title says, which is attempt some down and dirty real-world programming in the language. As far as I know , there are only two books on OCAML ( the other being Objective CAML for Scientists – so credit where credit’s due.

Nov 17, 2006, 07:04PM PST | 1 cheer

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Olle Jonsson

hey!

Everybody loves OCaml these days. My friend Dr T just began, too.

Nov 24, 2006, 08:27AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

cratylus

re :)

Yeah well,I’m definitely a beginner Olle !(nice to see you on this btw:))
- it’s worth a look for sure.
Plus there’s F#
I keep pinballing between a few languages I find “beautiful” ( prolog being the most beautiful of all imho) – hmm, Practical Prolog .. now I’d like to see that ;)

Nov 25, 2006, 04:56PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

Olle Jonsson

F#, how's that fitting you?

I just saw the name over at LtU, and was intrigued.

(In Danish, F# is close to a dirty word. Ah the joys of being multilingual.)

Dec 05, 2006, 09:33AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

cratylus

I think its pretty good – although I ahvent coded in it yet – I wanted to learn the basics of ocaml using the inria program first etc.) I guess I’ve been slack

Although i have compiled and viewed a few of the samples which are pretty impressive.

There’s an interactive repl-like console that integrates with visual studio pretty well by the look of it.
on the mailing list the lead developer (Don Symes) sent out these links which look fun:
F# helps show we’re not Neanderthals, by Don Syme, with material from Darren Platt

F# 1.1.13 now available, by Don Syme

Windows Forms and Threads, by Jon Harrop

Array Manipulation and Discrete Wavelet Transform in F#, Python and C++, by Jon Harrop

Graphics with .NET, by Jon Harrop

A Logo Interpreter in Under 400 lines, by Adam Granicz on hubFS

F# presentation at Czech .NET Group meeting, by Tomas Petricek

F# Interactive Tutorial, by Jon Harrop

Dealing with Terabytes of Data in F#, by Ralf Herbrich

Dec 08, 2006, 04:52PM PST | Respond to this

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