From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4918BC69 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:45:37 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AigcAJY/LUfUnw6GYmdsb2JhbACCOYwuFQIIEBk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.21,368,1188770400"; d="scan'208";a="5433379" Received: from pih-relay08.plus.net ([212.159.14.134]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 04 Nov 2007 12:45:37 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=beast.local) by pih-relay08.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Iodv6-0005x6-NH for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:45:36 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Idea for an open-source project Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:36:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1193834843.6677.39.camel@Blefuscu> In-Reply-To: <1193834843.6677.39.camel@Blefuscu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711041136.10145.jon@ffconsultancy.com> X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 dragging:98 toolbar:98 smoke:98 smoke:98 frog:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 purely:02 data:02 essentially:02 match:02 graphics:02 graphics:02 On Wednesday 31 October 2007 12:47, David Teller wrote: > In a few words: a beginner-oriented environment to build OCaml programs > only by clicking and dragging stuff around, with real-time type checking > to prevent connecting stuff when types don't match. For people aware of > Pure Data [1] or Scratch [2], well, this would essentially be a > functional version of either. I think this is an excellent idea! I have heard of similar work (research) but I've never seen one working. The nearest I've seen was GeoGebra. If such a thing existed in OCaml then I would certainly try it out. > Let me detail the idea a bit more. The IDE looks like a vector-drawing > program, with a number of building blocks available for use in the > toolbar. You might like to use the free edition of our Smoke Vector Graphics library for the rendering back-end: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/smoke_vector_graphics/?ol Then you just have to compose purely functional scenegraphs, which is much easier than using OpenGL directly. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e