From: Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OpenGL
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:07:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040407160739.GB13223@mev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404081611.25475.jdh30@cam.ac.uk>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:11:25PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
>
> On Thursday 08 April 2004 3:53 pm, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I'm just saying that I think that
> > "Ocaml has a robust set of tools for real-world uses" is inaccurate.
>
> Yes, I agree. Personally, I would like to see a carefully thought out
> interface to OpenGL, GLU etc. They are very stable and mature libraries which
> were superbly thought out but, unfortunately, suffer from a low-level API
> which sometimes ends up in a lot of "void *" raw data getting passed around
> and kept. I do not know of an existing, elegant interface to these libraries
> in any functional language and, IMHO, it would be a big but very worthwhile
> undertaking to create such an interface. I think this would make a good PhD
> for someone...
Did you look at LablGL?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-08 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-08 15:11 Jon Harrop
2004-04-07 16:07 ` Issac Trotts [this message]
2004-04-08 16:35 ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-08 20:19 ` Issac Trotts
2004-04-08 20:46 ` [Caml-list] Re: Triangle (was: OpenGL) Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-08 22:25 ` [Caml-list] OpenGL Jon Harrop
2004-04-09 1:45 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-09 2:57 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-09 10:57 ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-09 16:12 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-10 4:32 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-10 4:59 ` Kenneth Knowles
2004-04-10 8:17 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-04-11 6:20 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-11 8:10 ` skaller
2004-04-11 9:23 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-04-11 12:08 ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-11 12:01 ` Jon Harrop
2004-04-09 12:52 ` Issac Trotts
2004-04-08 16:37 ` Anil Madhavapeddy
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