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| From: | Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@u...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] OpenGL |
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 04:11:25PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote: > > 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... Did you look at LablGL? -- Issac Trotts http://mallorn.ucdavis.edu/~ijtrotts (w) 530-757-8789 ------------------- 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