From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA13714; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:11:21 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA13985 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:11:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ptb-relay01.plus.net (ptb-relay01.plus.net [212.159.14.212]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i38FBJYM030643 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 17:11:19 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1BBbBW-000M8U-Qn for caml-list@inria.fr; Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:11:18 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: University of Cambridge To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] OpenGL Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 16:11:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404081611.25475.jdh30@cam.ac.uk> X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; 2004:99 real-world:01 inaccurate:01 low-level:01 api:01 ocaml:01 imho:01 opengl:02 opengl:02 wrote:03 interface:03 interface:03 data:03 elegant:04 functional:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 147 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... Cheers, Jon. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners