On Tuesday 31 March 2009 14:37:05 Kuba Ober wrote: > There must be some reason why the manual and other materials on the > official site are of such poor quality.
FWIW, I think the OCaml manual is superb and under-appreciated. > Jon's > book, and Marcelo DiPierro's web2py book. Both are very good books > because the authors have a feel for what it takes to understand what > they talk about. Yet both miss out on some newer features of OCaml and > web2py, respectively -- features that would be best explained by the > very same authors! My work is driven by profit, of course, and I believe it is substantially more profitable to publish new books on related fringe topics where there is little or no competition (e.g. F#, Scala, Clojure) rather than write a second edition of an existing book like OCaml for Scientists. I am currently writing another F# book but only because we do not publish one yet. After that, I'll probably turn to another language but that may very well be HLVM if I can develop it quickly enough... -- 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
