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		astrodust on June 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specificatio... That's why it's bothering a lot of people that it has "GL" in the name at all.

TazeTSchnitzel on June 20, 2012 [–]

Why? It's basically a subset of GL, what's wrong with that? It's a bit like complaining that XHTML Basic profile is incompatible with the full XHTML.

astrodust on June 21, 2012 | [–]

In a fashion, OpenGL ES is about as OpenGL as C# is C.

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