[Haskell-cafe] In-place modification

[Derek Elkins]

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 23:05 +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Sunday 15 July 2007 21:57:40 Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
> > OpenGL is mostly written in C, so most of the code will likely run the
> > exact same bits. It's just an interface to a C library.
> 
> Benchmarking OpenGL is certainly of little to no interest. However, showing 
> how easily OpenGL can be interfaced to is of huge interest to me. Functional 
> languages tend to have very poor FFIs, so I for one would like to see whether 
> or not non-trivial graphical programs can be written in Haskell.
> 
> I was amazed to find that Frag corrupts memory in 64-bit, for example. Why are 
> there malloc calls in a Haskell program?!
> 

Because Haskell has a very nice FFI and the Haskell philosophy is to try
to do as much on the Haskell-side as possible.