[Haskell-cafe] ANN: cmonad 0.1.1
Don Stewart
dons at galois.com
Wed Apr 1 17:11:32 EDT 2009
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.
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