From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T03:46:34+09:00
Subject: Re: For performance, write it in OCaml

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:40:22AM +0900, wneumann@gmail.com wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> 
> > I find that I pick up a language faster if
> > there's a good community for it whose means of communication suits the
> > way I think, though.  What sort of online OCaml community resources are
> > available?
> 
> Primarily, the online resources come from one of the two mailing lists,
> OCaml-Beginners[1] for introductory to intermediate questions, and the
> main OCaml list[2] for intermediate to advanced questions, or questions
> on the OCaml internals and whatnot.  There are a few other places where
> info moves, like Richard Jones' cocan wiki [3], but at the moment
> things are primarily handled through the lists (though it might be
> about time for something like perlmonks to arrive as the community is
> growing).
> 
> [1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners/
> [2] http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list
> [3] http://wiki.cocan.org/

Thanks.  I'll look into it.

You mention it needs something like PerlMonks -- which is interesting,
considering I've noticed there's nothing like that for Ruby, either.
I've found myself wishing a couple of times that there was something
like a RubyMonks kinda thing (though in a more Rubyish idiom than *Monks
would be), but every time I consider the notion I find myself wishing
that PerlMonks were just a bit more multi-language, focusing primarily
on languages I personally find interesting.  Bah.

I've considered putting something vaguely like that together myself,
actually, but I'm lazy and too much of a perfectionist.  Since I'd be
working toward my own project spec to create such a website, I'd
probably just end up spending months working on what I want the site to
do and never get around to writing a line of code.

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