Re^3: (OT) "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right.

[hardburn]

My experiance differs. For instance, I spent a few days picking through OCaml a while back. I can't say I'm proficient in the langauge, but I did learn a lot about modern type systems (C and Java are not modern type systems). I'm sure I could pick up other things if I used the language every day for a few years, but even the little I did learn was valuable.

[jplindstrom]

That sounds interesting. I've been thinking about making OCaml my next language (mostly because of the mix of functional programming and existing libraries).

Are there any books/sites/resources would you recommend I start with?

/J

[hardburn]

I learned OCaml off this: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf. There are a few other tutorials listed at http://caml.inria.fr/tutorials-eng.html.

Now you just have to put up with the translated-from-French error messages it gives you :)

[elusion]

I've been making my way through an online tutorial OCaml for C, C++, Perl, and Java Programmers and have been happy with that.