I'll answer the questions that I can... On Tuesday 24 March 2009 19:42:40 John Prince wrote: > I'm new to ocaml and coming (most recently) from ruby, so I was wondering > if there are equivalents to some of the things that I find handy in ruby:
You may find the OCaml Beginners mailing list hosted by Yahoo to be more productive for simple questions. > 2) Is there something like 'ri' in ocaml? (commandline access to basic > documentation) I highly recommend ocamlbrowser but it is not CLI. > 3) Is there consensus on the best/fastest xml parser? I use XML-Light whenever it can handle it (it supports only a small part of XML but is very easy to use) and PXP otherwise. You might also check out the well-reputed Expat bindings but I have not tried them. > Where is the message archive located? For this list, here: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/index.en.html > Is it searchable? Google indexes it well. > Can someone point me to the best resource(s) for newbies? Start at the community OCaml tutorial wiki and search the links therein. http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/ There is some interesting propaganda here: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/ocaml/benefits/ > I have been reading through what's out there, but its always nice to get a > recommendation. Two beginners books are my own "OCaml for Scientists" and Tim Rentsch's "The Objective CAML Programming Language". Hopefully Jason Hickey's book will be published this year. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _______________________________________________ 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
