Re: [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?

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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Hal Fulton wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Hal Fulton wrote:
>>> 
>>> But I am happy with Ruby until something better comes along.
>>> Such as Ruby 2.0.
>> 
>> what do you think of ocaml hal?
>> 
>
> Is that an Irish animal that can go for a week
> without a drink?

yes.  ;-)

>
> Seriously, I've never looked at that one. Nor
> Haskell either.
>
> I know I should look at things like that, but my
> to-do list is already formidable.

i bought a very expensive book on it from

   http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/

it was quite good but bloody expensive.  ping me and i'll loan it to you.

btw.  my to-do list is totally out of control too - babies do that to a guy.

cheers.

-a
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