Re: [Caml-list] OpenGL

[Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu>]

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?

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