OpenAL++ Released

Posted by michael on Friday March 8, 2002 @02:23AM from the tooting-one's-horn dept.

Tomas Hämälä writes: "Developed as an in-house tool for spatial audio at VRlab, OpenAL++ is now released to the public. As the name suggests, the API is object oriented and built on the portable audio library OpenAL. The libraries CommonC++ and PortAudio are also used. OpenAL++ is released under the LGPL. Features of OpenAL++ include: Object oriented interface, easy thread handling, automatic initialization/shutdown and more. For more information, visit the OpenAL++ homepage. VRlab is a research center for virtual reality and visualization. It is closely connected to the Departement of Computing Science at Umeå University and High Performance Computing Centre North."

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Limiting the audience? by Tablizer · 2002-03-08 18:02 · Score: 2, Insightful

As the name suggests, the API is object oriented and built on the portable audio library OpenAL
Why does everything have to be "object oriented" these days? What about non-OO languages or programmers who feel that OO is mostly hype and a subjective personal preference? With all its techno-cliches, OOP has never proven to be objectively better under code-size counts and change impact analysis.
You narrow your audience when you buzzword-atize stuff beyond use.
oop.ismad.com

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