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 SAA24400; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:27:35 +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 SAA24414 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:27:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cilantro.cs.wisc.edu (cilantro.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.166.48]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3JGRX104472 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:27:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from willb@localhost) by cilantro.cs.wisc.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) id LAA31312; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:27:30 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:27:30 -0500 From: Will Benton To: Stefano Lanzavecchia Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCamlSDL Message-ID: <20020419112730.D30809@cilantro.cs.wisc.edu> References: <20020419110629.C30809@cilantro.cs.wisc.edu> <001101c1e7bd$2a7ffa70$58a4b9c2@MADOKA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001101c1e7bd$2a7ffa70$58a4b9c2@MADOKA>; from stf@apl.it on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:13:37PM +0200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:13:37PM +0200, Stefano Lanzavecchia wrote: > > > > Why are you using D3D and not OpenGL? OpenGL is not only better, but > > it's portable. > > It's really hard to define "better"... Beauty is in the eye of the > beholder... Sure. However, OpenGL has two major advantages over Direct3D even if you don't consider how easy it is to use or how efficient it is: 1. It is not controlled by a single company (especially not a convicted predatory monopolist). A sub-point of this is that many implementations are available for many different platforms. 2. O'Caml bindings are already available for OpenGL. wb -- Will Benton | "Die richtige Methode der Philosophie wäre eigentlich willb@acm.org | die: Nichts zu sagen, als was sich sagen läßt...." ------------------- 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