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 HAA30064; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:00:08 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA30163 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:00:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (mailfarm.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.61.106]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3A511jq021338 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:01:02 +0200 Received: from [64.162.212.212] (HELO tallman.kefka.frap.net) by calmail-cl.berkeley.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with SMTP id 15124169; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 22:00:04 -0700 Received: by tallman.kefka.frap.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 9 Apr 2004 21:59:24 -0700 Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 21:59:24 -0700 From: Kenneth Knowles To: "Brandon J. Van Every" Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OpenGL Message-ID: <20040410045924.GA4630@tallman.kefka.frap.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; knowles:99 caml-list:01 2004:99 brandon:99 apis:01 re-implement:01 high-level:01 inference:01 orthogonal:01 0700,:01 polymorphic:01 opengl:02 first-class:02 modules:02 wrote:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 224 On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 09:32:37PM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > [Lot's of good info on 3D APIs] 3D graphics are not particularly interesting to me, but there are three sounds principles to apply here: 1. Go with standards. 2. Bind first, re-implement later. 3. Guys who need to "get work done" have experience, so respect that. But they don't use modern, high-level languages very often, so remember they are inexperienced in this arena (I know many many programmers who have never heard of first-class functions, type inference, or polymorphic types). Number 2 means, use what is there now, and build slowly from the ground up to get nice orthogonal design in modules that make sense for your language. Perl is an excellent example. Kenn ------------------- 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