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 OAA20387; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:08:20 +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 OAA20157 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:08:19 +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 i3BC8IYM023114 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:08:18 +0200 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1BCdl0-0004sB-GE; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:08:14 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: University of Cambridge To: "Brandon J. Van Every" , Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OpenGL Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:08:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404111308.13066.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; caml-list:01 2004:99 brandon:99 api:01 opengl:02 wrote:03 interface:03 elegant:04 imperative:04 somewhere:04 functional:06 cheers:06 scope:07 opposed:08 rather:09 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 252 On Sunday 11 April 2004 10:23 am, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > Given those results, I think a better question is if there's a > successful 3D API for a GC language out there somewhere. Personally, I would much rather see emphasis placed upon an elegant, functional (as opposed to imperative) interface for doing graphics than one designed around GC. I have been unable to find any previous work on this and, therefore, I think there is plenty of scope for innovation. 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