Re: Programming first steps.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 04:17:11PM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 04:40:36PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> If it is all about the intellectual journey, definitely take a
>> functional, higher-order, statically typed language. OCaml has my
>> heart
> I suggest you start with Standard ML if you are going down the functional
> route. After-all its what *real* *working* programmers use. [1]
I don't know how much 'industry' uses SML, but there is industry using
Caml, for sure. And I would think that in Debian, there is more ocaml
software than SML software ;)
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Lionel
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