Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen <mik...@dvide.com> writes: > 2009/3/6 Jason Hickey <j...@cs.caltech.edu>: >> Dear friends, >> >> I have recently reviewed a book titled "The Objective Caml Programming >> Language," published under the name Tim Rentsch by Abscissa Press, >> ISBN 978-0-9815992-0-5. The majority of the text printed in this book >> was written by me, and it is published without my permission. To be >> specific, Mr. Rentsch wrote chapters 14, 15, 17, and the Appendix >> (totaling 1/3 of the text of this book); the rest is my writing. >> > > I don't have anything polite to say other than to give Jason my full > support and recommend anyone to not buy that book. > > No matter how much editing takes place, this cannot count as original > work. Most people in software know this.
The question is why fighting over a book that looks dull and boring, than 10 people will maybe buy, and that can be downloaded anyway as a pdf on the web ? Ok, I am (half) joking, just to relax, there are too much tension on this mailing list :) I propose a fight between the two gentlemen: the one who win the next ICFP contest can publish the book. > > Regards, > Mikkel > > _______________________________________________ > Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: > http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
