Re^3: (OT) "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right.

My experiance differs. For instance, I spent a few days picking through OCaml a while back. I can't say I'm proficient in the langauge, but I did learn a lot about modern type systems (C and Java are not modern type systems). I'm sure I could pick up other things if I used the language every day for a few years, but even the little I did learn was valuable.

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

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Learning OCaml (was: "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right.) by jplindstrom (Monsignor) on Oct 08, 2004 at 16:42 UTC
That sounds interesting. I've been thinking about making OCaml my next language (mostly because of the mix of functional programming and existing libraries). Are there any books/sites/resources would you recommend I start with? /J	[reply]
Re: Learning OCaml (was: "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right.) by hardburn (Abbot) on Oct 08, 2004 at 16:45 UTC
I learned OCaml off this: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf. There are a few other tutorials listed at http://caml.inria.fr/tutorials-eng.html. Now you just have to put up with the translated-from-French error messages it gives you :) "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.	[reply]
Re: Learning OCaml (was: "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right.) by elusion (Curate) on Oct 08, 2004 at 21:44 UTC
I've been making my way through an online tutorial OCaml for C, C++, Perl, and Java Programmers and have been happy with that. elusion : http://matt.diephouse.com	[reply]


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