It could be nice to translate it in English, at least to have a
larger base of readers, and adapt the examples from Caml Light to
Objective Caml (I don't know how much the syntaxes differ though)
The syntax is very close for the subset of Caml used in the book.
Right. Parts of the standard library changed, though.
However, judging from the lack of availability of this book even in
French, there might an issue in the agreement between the authors
(Leroy & Weis) and the publisher. I'm suspecting the authors are
unable to re-publish the book elsewhere.
The publisher (Dunod) holds all rights except for an English
translation (Pierre Weis and I reserved those rights). There is a
procedure to ask the publisher to relinquish its rights if it decides
not to print the book again, but that procedure can take up to 1 year (!).
All in all, I'm not sure it's worth the effort to resurrect this old
text, but if a group of motivated volunteers arise, let's discuss it
privately.
- Xavier Leroy
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