Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI
From: Immanuel Litzroth (immanuell_AT_enfocus.be)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 11:04:17 EEST
Dr.Graef_AT_t-online.de (Albert Graef) writes:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>> Has anyone else looked at O'Caml? :
>> http://www.ocaml.org/
>> I've been coding in it for about 6 weeks and I'm REALLY enjoying
>> it. Its the most fun I've had coding in ages.
>
> Yes, those modern functional languages really bring back the joy to
> hacking. :) The trouble with ML and Haskell is, though, while they
> already have some facilities for graphics programming, at this time
> they mostly lack other multimedia libraries. (And I'm wondering how
> suitable Haskell would be for realtime stuff, given its lazy
> evaluation strategy. ML certainly is, in fact it's been reported that
> in some cases compiled ML is even faster than C ...)
>
There is the Haskore Haskell package. The problem I had with doing
haskell audio work that binary I/O was too slow.
Immanuel
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