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 RAA22763; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:49:39 +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 RAA22816 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:49:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.25.148.40]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3JFnaL21423 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:49:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id g3JFnLXt005999; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 01:49:21 +1000 (EST) Received: from ozemail.com.au (ppp227.dyn146.pacific.net.au [210.23.146.227]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id BAA20238; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 01:49:18 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3CC03C7D.8020505@ozemail.com.au> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 01:49:17 +1000 From: John Max Skaller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warp CC: caml-list@inria.fr, Luc Mazardo Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCamlSDL References: <02c601c1e724$deae7a60$3900a8c0@warp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Warp wrote: > >I'm currently working at using OCaml as a script top-level for Direct3D. For >now it works just fine, and this summer our team will work on a big game >project almost entirely written in OCaml. Altough "game" things are perhaps >not the kind of projects for which OCaml was actually designed, I think we >can get some big payoff by using such a nice langage. > No. Yes.:-) Games are the ultimate application. You need a very good language to write a decent game and have it work. Ocaml is a superb choice. It is well suited to it. Have a look at the complete and utter rubbish the commercial sector generally offers: most of them can't even get basic game logic right. Oh yes, they have superb graphics ... elaborate scenarios .. Please. Write a decent game. There isn't one. -- John Max Skaller, mailto:skaller@ozemail.com.au snail:10/1 Toxteth Rd, Glebe, NSW 2037, Australia. voice:61-2-9660-0850 ------------------- 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