malcolm.wallace: > > On 30 Mar 2009, at 20:16, Andrew Coppin wrote: >>> Lennart, what is the next language DSL you are going to build? >>> Prolog? XSLT? >> >> Declarative 3D scene construction? ;-) > > The ICFP programming contest in year 2000 was to write a ray tracer for a > given declarative 3D scene construction language (CSG - constructive > solid geometry). A team from Galois wrote a decent entry in Haskell, > which did not win (those were the glory days of O'Caml), but it was > placed in the top three. I believe with some careful googling, you > should still be able to find a copy of the source code. > > I'm sure that if someone were to return to the idea now, the DSL for CSG > could be improved in many ways, since the original language was simply > given in the contest description, and there was no point in altering it. >
I believe the Galois 2000 ray tracer is now part of the GHC multicore benchmark suite. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
