[Haskell-cafe] Functional programming for processing of large raster images

[minh thu]

2006/6/23, ajb at spamcop.net <ajb at spamcop.net>:
> G'day all.
>
hey,
> Quoting oleg at pobox.com:
>
> > Recently Vo Minh Thu wondered if Haskell (or, I generalize, functional
> > programming) can be of much use for computer graphics programming.
>
> As others have pointed out, it's Haskell (and its laziness) that he
> perceived to be the problem.
>
> However, I'd like to take the discussion up one more level.

actually, i think my problem was at that upper level.

> I hope that Thu doesn't mind me saying this, but off-list, I got a
> better idea of the program that he was trying to write.  He's not
> interested writing an image processing system.  In that sense, raster
> images are actually not a central data structure.

no probs at all.

[snip remaining]

thank you for sharing that !

vo minh thu