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WTF is OpenGL

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2 comments, last by X2pcg21 20 years, 1 month ago
Is OpenGL its own language or is it part of C?
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Neither. It''s a standardized library you can use from multiple programming languages.

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So basically you can use it with any language that can #include?
No. It''s a LIBRARY, not a header file.


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