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That line also caught my eye. It sounds insane: isn't it much more reasonable to recomend books based on their quality rather than the language they are written

That line also caught my eye. It sounds insane: isn't it much more reasonable to recomend books based on their quality rather than the language they are written in? I agree with you that "Le Langage Caml" is a pretty good book, but I disagree with what you say at the end about advising people who don't read French against reading it. I would instead just advise everyone interested in Ocaml to read it and people who can't read French will automatically ignore my advice without me needing to say anything about it!

e12e 12y ago
Thanks for this recommendation -- I could use a book to brush up on my French on (and caml :). I'd love to hear some other "best-of" programming book (originally) in French? My native language is Norwegian, and I'm afraid I've not read a whole lot in Norwegian that I feel I could recommend (mostly because a lot of the most obvious interesting candidates like Simula and MVC is written in English anyway). Besides, I'm afraid the set of people that don't already speak/understand Norwegian, and would like to learn it in order to be literate in programming/technical jargon/style is rather small...? I also speak Japanese, but I can't really claim to be literate -- I'd be happy to receive some best-of recommendations there too -- the only way to become technically literate is to read, after all :-)
- omaranto 12y ago
  I really like Christian Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces. I read the English translation but the original is in French, Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp (that's actually the title of a revised edition, the first edition was called Les Langages Lisp).
andrewflnr 12y ago
The point of an article like this is to warn people about things like tht in advance, not make them find out themselves. For that reason, at least, it's silly to tell your readers to read a book you know very well most of them are incapable of reading; that's a waste of their time.
- groovy2shoes 12y ago
  Why would someone who doesn't understand French waste their time trying to read a book called "Le Langage Caml"?

e12e 12y ago

Thanks for this recommendation -- I could use a book to brush up on my French on (and caml :). I'd love to hear some other "best-of" programming book (originally) in French? My native language is Norwegian, and I'm afraid I've not read a whole lot in Norwegian that I feel I could recommend (mostly because a lot of the most obvious interesting candidates like Simula and MVC is written in English anyway). Besides, I'm afraid the set of people that don't already speak/understand Norwegian, and would like to learn it in order to be literate in programming/technical jargon/style is rather small...? I also speak Japanese, but I can't really claim to be literate -- I'd be happy to receive some best-of recommendations there too -- the only way to become technically literate is to read, after all :-)

omaranto 12y ago
I really like Christian Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces. I read the English translation but the original is in French, Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp (that's actually the title of a revised edition, the first edition was called Les Langages Lisp).

andrewflnr 12y ago

The point of an article like this is to warn people about things like tht in advance, not make them find out themselves. For that reason, at least, it's silly to tell your readers to read a book you know very well most of them are incapable of reading; that's a waste of their time.

groovy2shoes 12y ago
Why would someone who doesn't understand French waste their time trying to read a book called "Le Langage Caml"?