Hello Gabriel, [ I should not participate to such a thread... anyway I'm participating. :-) ]
2011/12/7 Gabriel Scherer <[email protected]>: >> The French book "Le langage Caml" is very great, Yes, yes and yes! I especially loved the "do one *complete* program in one chapter of a few pages" approach. >> althought it is quite old, >> and althought examples used in the book (write a pascal compiler, a grep >> tool and so on) is maybe too theoristic for engineer target. >> Maybe a translation would be sufficient ? > > ( For those interested, the book is available online at > http://caml.inria.fr/pub/distrib/books/llc.pdf ) I thought about the same. Another idea: adapt the book to ePub format extended with Javascript (apparently latest ePub draft has such scripting capabilities) and use js_of_ocaml tool to embed an OCaml toplevel inside the book: read the examples, execute examples, play with the examples! Wouldn't it be nice? ;-) Unfortunately, it is available under a non Free license (Non Commercial clause of CC-BY-NC-SA licence), this is a show stopper for me. I would like such a book to be included in Debian or other Free Software distributions. > I have contacted Xavier Leroy and Pierre Weis a few years ago to get > the TeX sources of the book. I didn't intend to translate from French > to English, but only, for a start, from Caml Light to Objective Caml. > Neither of them could find the sources (they must be about twenty > years old and buried in a 300Mio hidden hard disk somewhere), so I > didn't proceed further. Wouldn't it be the non Free license, I would even start from the PDF. :-( Best regards, david -- 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
