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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  5 May 2006 12:22:23 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvidia scrolling performance
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the abstract for glift contains this gem:

	Glift enables GPU programmers to separate algorithms from data structure 
	definitions; thereby greatly simplifying algorithmic development [...]

has anyone considered a declaritive language for this sort of programming?
or are shaders too irregular for that sort of thing?

- erik

On Fri May  5 11:23:05 CDT 2006, plalonde@telus.net wrote:
> 
> I'm really hoping that we can find a way to get our users off the C/C+ 
> + bandwagon (and that includes the high-level shading languages as  
> well) and using something that can express the required computations  
> more naturally.  There are some promissing-looking functional  
> approaches, but there's a huge barrier to adoption if it doesn't look  
> like C.
> 
> Paul
>