Re: The OCaml MOOC offered again?

"Douglas Lewit [email protected] [ocaml_beginners]" <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:39:17 -0600
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Thanks Martin,

Yes, the stuff written by John Whitington is WONDERFUL.  He offers a
step-by-step approach that I really like.  I'm afraid I'm not a big fan of
"Real World OCaml".  I know the authors are geniuses.... but I am not!  :-)
  And "Think Like A Functional Programmer" is excellent, but I wish it was
longer and more comprehensive.

Have a great day and thanks!

Best,

Doug.


On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Martin DeMello [email protected]
[ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> This is a good starting point if you're looking for books:
>
> https://github.com/rizo/awesome-ocaml#books
>
> There aren't many yet, but they're definitely out there and the community
> is gaining momentum.
>
> martin
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Douglas Lewit [email protected]
> [ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi Alexandre,
>>
>> But what about Haskell?  Haskell has a huge amount of documentation to
>> support it.  I believe Haskell originally began at the University of
>> Edinborough in Scotland as a mostly academic initiative.  Now if I visit
>> Amazon.com there are DOZENS of books about Haskell, and www.oreilly.com
>> now offers two or maybe three tutorial video collections on Haskell.  Bo=
th
>> Haskell and Scala are very well documented.  So is F#.  OCaml has much l=
ess
>> documentation to support it, and that's a weakness.  ( More a weakness o=
f
>> the culture than of the language per se. )   Other languages are also we=
ll
>> supported with very good documentation.  There must be hundreds of books
>> and YouTube videos describing all the functions, libraries and applicati=
ons
>> of Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, etc, etc.  Even in the obscure world =
of
>> AI one can find some good documentation explaining how to write code in
>> LISP and how to use Emacs as an IDE/editor.  I just wish that the OCaml
>> community would follow that example.  I sort of get the feeling that the
>> only way to really learn everything about OCaml is to get a job working =
at
>> Jane Street.  Otherwise.... well, good luck!
>>
>> Actually.... there's a good question.  Does Jane Street have any
>> documentation for OCaml that is *open to the public*?  I've tried
>> looking for some, but so far haven't had much success trying to find it.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Douglas.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Alexandre Gouraud
>> [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dears,
>>>
>>> Let me give you my two cents to this story. OCaml has been created by a
>>> french "public" research organisation called Inria. Therefore, the
>>> evolutions of the language have followed requirements that are way far =
from
>>> the promotion and adoption of a language by a majority of users. Their
>>> requirements were more research oriented, with quite limited resources.=
 If
>>> it turns out that the language is useful and used by many researchers o=
r
>>> developers, fine, but it was/is not the initial objective, nor any long=
(
>>> er) term objective. Research organizations, by nature, cannot deal with
>>> such objectives, as Microsoft or Sun or Google do with their own langua=
ge.
>>> This being said, even business oriented organisation do not promote
>>> languages for the fun of it, it is usually because they think it brings
>>> them strategic advantage on their market...remember.
>>>
>>> At the end, INRIA's people don't have time anymore to promote the
>>> language, develop it, write books and answer to questions. They mainly =
rely
>>> on the community. This is why there is no decent environment for Window=
s
>>> developers, and I am the first one to deplore it. Finally, remember tha=
t
>>> it was a french initiative. I believe that because the engineers who fi=
rst
>>> adopted it were not native English speakers was a barrier (and still is=
) a
>>> barrier to wider adoption of the language, despite the HUGE penetration=
 of
>>> this language in the world. You see here the power of the language of a
>>> culture and the influence it allows.
>>>
>>> OCaml is great ! Keep coding :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Alexandre.
>>>
>>> 2017-01-31 17:58 GMT+01:00 Douglas Lewit [email protected]
>>> [ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks like it's a major relief for you to type + instead of ^ ?   Haha=
hahahaha....
>>>> very funny!!!  I'm not sure if one language is really "better" than
>>>> another, but I find it really interesting why Don Syme ( F#'s creator =
) did
>>>> it his way and why Xavier Leroy ( OCaml's creator ) did it another way=
.
>>>> Don Syme obviously made the decision that it was silly to have + for i=
nts
>>>> and +. for floats, and I think in OCaml you need +/ for big ints, etc,
>>>> etc.  So Don Syme combined everything into one overloaded operator.  I=
s it
>>>> good or bad?  I'm not sure.  It depends on the programmer and why you'=
re
>>>> programming.  BUT.... I still believe that language documentation is v=
ery,
>>>> very important.  You can have the greatest computer language in the wo=
rld,
>>>> but if nobody writes about it or teaches it.... then who is going to k=
now
>>>> about it except a minority of elite developers?!  ( And the elitist
>>>> mentality will not help a language to become popular and successful. )
>>>>
>>>> The OCaml MOOC is a fun course, and full of great information, but I
>>>> don't like that the team behind it is pretty bad about answering email
>>>> queries.  I sent a couple of emails to OCamlPro requesting more inform=
ation
>>>> and did not get back a single reply.  I guess I'm not important enough=
 for
>>>> them to worry about!  ( Or so they think. )  Again.... a wonderful
>>>> language, but the community of people supporting the language have to =
do
>>>> their work to promote the language.  Unless of course we want OCaml to=
 go
>>>> the route of Pascal or Perl!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Pierpaolo Bernardi
>>>> [email protected] [ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]=
>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Douglas Lewit [email protected]
>>>>> [ocaml_beginners] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Hello everyone,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Remember that OCaml MOOC offered through that university in Paris,
>>>>> France? Does anyone know if that course is going to be offered again =
in the
>>>>> near future? It wasn't bad! Definitely challenging, but I learned a l=
ot.
>>>>>
>>>>> The MOOC has been offered in 2015 and in 2016, both times it started
>>>>> around Oct/Nov. Lacking any other information, we can extrapolate
>>>>> from this small data set and hope that the MOOC will be offered again
>>>>> toward the end of 2017 :)
>>>>>
>>>>> > If I want to concatenate the strings "Hello, " and "World!" in OCam=
l
>>>>> I have to write "Hello, " ^ "World!", but in F# I would just write "H=
ello,
>>>>> " + "World!".
>>>>>
>>>>> Just for curiosity, why in Ocaml you *HAVE*TO* use ^, while in F# you
>>>>> *JUST* use + ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like it's a major relief for you to type + instead of ^ ?
>>>>>
>>>>> > The operator overloading feature however does have a disadvantage
>>>>> because if I don't make use of specific type annotations then the typ=
e
>>>>> checker automatically assumes that my function arguments are integers=
....
>>>>> and that is not always an accurate assumption!
>>>>>
>>>>> That's correct. And in addition, even when the assumptions turn out
>>>>> to be accurate, the code is less clear for a human reader.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>>
>>
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      <p><div dir=3D"ltr"><font size=3D"4">Thanks Martin,</font><div><font =
size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"4">Yes, the stuff written by=
 John Whitington is WONDERFUL.=C2=A0 He offers a step-by-step approach that=
 I really like.=C2=A0 I&#39;m afraid I&#39;m not a big fan of &quot;Real Wo=
rld OCaml&quot;.=C2=A0 I know the authors are geniuses.... but I am not! =
=C2=A0:-) =C2=A0 And &quot;Think Like A Functional Programmer&quot; is exce=
llent, but I wish it was longer and more comprehensive.</font></div><div><f=
ont size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"4">Have a great day and =
thanks!</font></div><div><font size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font size=
=3D"4">Best,</font></div><div><font size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font =
size=3D"4">Doug.</font></div><div><font size=3D"4">=C2=A0=C2=A0</font></div=
></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Ja=
n 31, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Martin DeMello <a href=3D"mailto:martindemello@gmail=
.com">[email protected]</a> [ocaml_beginners] <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<=
a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">ocaml_b=
[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmai=
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      <p></p><div dir=3D"ltr">This is a good starting point if you&#39;re l=
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some-ocaml#books" target=3D"_blank">https://github.com/rizo/<wbr>awesome-oc=
aml#books</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>There aren&#39;t many yet, but t=
hey&#39;re definitely out there and the community is gaining momentum.</div=
><div><br></div><div>martin</div></div><div><div class=3D"h5"><div class=3D=
"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:25 P=
M, Douglas Lewit <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">del=
[email protected]</a> [ocaml_beginners] <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailt=
o:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">ocaml_beginners@yahoog=
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      <p></p><div dir=3D"ltr"><font size=3D"4">Hi Alexandre,</font><div><fo=
nt size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"4">But what about Haskell=
?=C2=A0 Haskell has a huge amount of documentation to support it.=C2=A0 I b=
elieve Haskell originally began at the University of Edinborough in Scotlan=
d as a mostly academic initiative.=C2=A0 Now if I visit Amazon.com there ar=
e DOZENS of books about Haskell, and <a href=3D"http://www.oreilly.com" tar=
get=3D"_blank">www.oreilly.com</a> now offers two or maybe three tutorial v=
ideo collections on Haskell.=C2=A0 Both Haskell and Scala are very well doc=
umented.=C2=A0 So is F#.=C2=A0 OCaml has much less documentation to support=
 it, and that&#39;s a weakness. =C2=A0( More a weakness of the culture than=
 of the language per se. ) =C2=A0 Other languages are also well supported w=
ith very good documentation.=C2=A0 There must be hundreds of books and YouT=
ube videos describing all the functions, libraries and applications of Pyth=
on, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, etc, etc.=C2=A0 Even in the obscure world of AI=
 one can find some good documentation explaining how to write code in LISP =
and how to use Emacs as an IDE/editor.=C2=A0 I just wish that the OCaml com=
munity would follow that example.=C2=A0 I sort of get the feeling that the =
only way to really learn everything about OCaml is to get a job working at =
Jane Street.=C2=A0 Otherwise.... well, good luck!</font></div><div><font si=
ze=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"4">Actually.... there&#39;s a =
good question.=C2=A0 Does Jane Street have any documentation for OCaml that=
 is <i><u>open to the public</u></i>?=C2=A0 I&#39;ve tried looking for some=
, but so far haven&#39;t had much success trying to find it.</font></div><d=
iv><font size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"4">Best,</font></di=
v><div><font size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"4">Douglas.</fo=
nt></div><div><font size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font size=3D"4"><br><=
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"m_-5757496184798194788h5"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gma=
il_quote">On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Alexandre Gouraud <a href=3D"mai=
lto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">alexandre.gouraud=
@enst-bretagn<wbr>e.fr</a> [ocaml_beginners] <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">ocaml_beginne=
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      <p></p><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Dears, </div><div><br></div><div>Let me =
give you my two=C2=A0cents to this story. <span id=3D"m_-575749618479819478=
8m_5498942033128934038m_-6515622371976885825:141.42">OCaml</span> has been =
created by a french &quot;public&quot;=C2=A0research organisation called <s=
pan id=3D"m_-5757496184798194788m_5498942033128934038m_-6515622371976885825=
:141.43">Inria</span>. Therefore, the evolutions of the language have follo=
wed requirements that are way far from the promotion and adoption of a lang=
uage by a majority of users. Their requirements were more research oriented=
, with quite limited resources.=C2=A0If it turns out that the language is u=
seful and used by many researchers or developers, fine, but it was/is not t=
he initial objective, nor any long(<span id=3D"m_-5757496184798194788m_5498=
942033128934038m_-6515622371976885825:141.44">er</span>) term objective. Re=
search <span id=3D"m_-5757496184798194788m_5498942033128934038m_-6515622371=
976885825:141.45">organizations</span>, by nature, cannot deal with such ob=
jectives, as Microsoft or Sun or Google do with their own language. This be=
ing said, even business oriented organisation do not promote languages for =
the fun of it, it is usually because they think it brings them strategic ad=
vantage on their market...remember. </div><div><br></div><div>At the end, <=
span id=3D"m_-5757496184798194788m_5498942033128934038m_-651562237197688582=
5:141.46">INRIA&#39;s</span> people don&#39;t have time anymore to promote =
the language, develop it, write books and answer to questions. They mainly =
rely on the community. This is why there is no decent environment for Windo=
ws developers, and I am the first one to deplore it. Finally, remember that=
 it=C2=A0was a french initiative.=C2=A0I=C2=A0believe that because=C2=A0the=
=C2=A0engineers who first adopted it=C2=A0were not native English speakers =
was a barrier (and still is)=C2=A0a barrier to wider adoption of the langua=
ge, despite the=C2=A0HUGE penetration of this language in the world. You se=
e here the power of the language of a culture and the influence it allows. =
</div><div><br></div><div><span id=3D"m_-5757496184798194788m_5498942033128=
934038m_-6515622371976885825:141.47">OCaml</span> is great ! Keep coding :-=
)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br></div><div>Alexandre. </d=
iv></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2017-01-=
31 17:58 GMT&#43;01:00 Douglas Lewit <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" t=
arget=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a> [ocaml_beginners] <span dir=3D"ltr">=
&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">oc=
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      <p></p><div dir=3D"ltr"><span style=3D"font-family:georgia;font-size:=
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=C2=A0 </span><font face=3D"monospace, monospace" size=3D"4">Hahahahahaha..=
.. very funny!!!=C2=A0 I&#39;m not sure if one language is really &quot;bet=
ter&quot; than another, but I find it really interesting why Don Syme ( F#&=
#39;s creator ) did it his way and why Xavier Leroy ( OCaml&#39;s creator )=
 did it another way.=C2=A0 Don Syme obviously made the decision that it was=
 silly to have + for ints and +. for floats, and I think in OCaml you need =
&#43;/ for big ints, etc, etc.=C2=A0 So Don Syme combined everything into o=
ne overloaded operator.=C2=A0 Is it good or bad?=C2=A0 I&#39;m not sure.=C2=
=A0 It depends on the programmer and why you&#39;re programming.=C2=A0 BUT.=
... I still believe that language documentation is very, very important.=C2=
=A0 You can have the greatest computer language in the world, but if nobody=
 writes about it or teaches it.... then who is going to know about it excep=
t a minority of elite developers?! =C2=A0( And the elitist mentality will n=
ot help a language to become popular and successful. )</font><div><font fac=
e=3D"monospace, monospace" size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div><font face=3D"m=
onospace, monospace" size=3D"4">The OCaml MOOC is a fun course, and full of=
 great information, but I don&#39;t like that the team behind it is pretty =
bad about answering email queries.=C2=A0 I sent a couple of emails to OCaml=
Pro requesting more information and did not get back a single reply.=C2=A0 =
I guess I&#39;m not important enough for them to worry about! =C2=A0( Or so=
 they think. ) =C2=A0Again.... a wonderful language, but the community of p=
eople supporting the language have to do their work to promote the language=
.=C2=A0 Unless of course we want OCaml to go the route of Pascal or Perl!</=
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[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a> [ocaml_beginners=
] <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" =
target=3D"_blank">[email protected]<wbr>om</a>&gt;</span> wrote=
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      <p><span>On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Douglas Lewit <a href=3D"m=
ailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a><br>
[ocaml_beginners] &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">[email protected]<wbr>om</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Hello everyone,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Remember that OCaml MOOC offered through that university in Paris, Fra=
nce?  Does anyone know if that course is going to be offered again in the n=
ear future?  It wasn&#39;t bad!  Definitely challenging, but I learned a lo=
t.<br>
<br></span>
The MOOC has been offered in 2015 and in 2016, both times it started<br>
around Oct/Nov.  Lacking any other information, we can extrapolate<br>
from this small data set and hope that the MOOC will be offered again<br>
toward the end of 2017  :)<span><br>
<br>
&gt;   If I want to concatenate the strings &quot;Hello, &quot; and &quot;W=
orld!&quot; in OCaml I have to write &quot;Hello, &quot; ^ &quot;World!&quo=
t;, but in F# I would just write &quot;Hello, &quot; + &quot;World!&quot;.<=
br>
<br></span>
Just for curiosity, why in Ocaml you *HAVE*TO* use ^, while in F# you<br>
*JUST* use + ?<br>
<br>
Looks like it&#39;s a major relief for you to type + instead of ^ ?<span><b=
r>
<br>
&gt; The operator overloading feature however does have a disadvantage beca=
use if I don&#39;t make use of specific type annotations then the type chec=
ker automatically assumes that my function arguments are integers.... and t=
hat is not always an accurate assumption!<br>
<br></span>
That&#39;s correct.  And in addition, even when the assumptions turn out<br=
>
to be accurate, the code is less clear for a human reader.<br>
<br>
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