Other Cam(e)l book?

robin on 2002-04-09T18:32:36

Apparently O'Reilly is bringing out a book on OCaml. I wonder what animal they'll use for the cover...

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It's a translation... from French

BooK on 2002-04-10T15:18:39

The book you are referring too is probably the English translation of the original Développement d'applications avec Objective CAML, published in French by Éditions O'Reilly, in April 2000. After all, CAML was developped in France.

As you can see on the cover, the animal is a horse from the race "Percheron" (in French). I heard that the CAML people were very disappointed that it couldn't be a "Chameau"...

The preliminary translation is available online.

Ah!

robin on 2002-04-10T18:06:30

Thanks a lot - very interesting. It's a shame they couldn't have a camel. They deserve it more than us, in a way...

Still if you say "the CAML book" aloud, it'll be ambiguous. No problem in French, I suppose. ("CAML" vs "Chameau")

Shootout

djberg96 on 2002-04-22T17:51:32

I went out to The Great Computer Language Shootout and was impressed not only by the fact that ocaml sometimes outperformed gcc, but also that the programs generally had relatively (and sometimes absolutely) small footprints.