Mehdi Dogguy <me...@dogguy.org> writes: > Anyone knows who is administrating caml-beginners mailing-list?
The list was started by a gentleman called Ernesto Torresin, whom I know personally and I have worked together with. I think he is still running it. The last email address I have for him is <stalke...@tin.it>, which may or may not be current. I can reach him through other channels if necessary. About ten years ago Ernesto was asked to continue the development of an application for medical breath analysis that had been written in ocaml under my supervision. He had no formal training in computer science or any other "scientific" discipline, but he soon became fascinated with Ocaml because he thought it made a lot of sense from the perspective of a linguist. He didn't want to waste the time of Xavier and other important people asking questions about reversing linked lists, and therefore he started the ocaml-beginners Yahoo group where these questions could be asked. I don't have an opinion regarding whether the two lists should be merged or not. However, the original ocaml-beginners list was serving a community of nonspecialists that was much larger than I thought existed. Here "nonspecialist" means somebody who has never written a program before, in any language. Clearly the list was meeting a real need, and users such as Ernesto should be taken into account in any decision on this topic. Regards, Matteo Frigo -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
