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Message: [QUOTE="Jon Harrop, post: 2835028"] You may be interested in the F# programming language from Microsoft Research. This is a high-performance functional programming language with integrated Visual Studio support and an interactive mode (like a Mathematica notebook). The F# language is not distributed with any graphical tools except a couple of example programs. However, you can write a purely functional scene graph library and compiler in only 200 lines of code and then generate 2D and 3D graphics (spawned as separate visualizations from an interactive sessions) with the brevity of Mathematica and the robustness of ML. I have detailed exactly this functionality in the visualization chapter of my forthcoming book F# for Scientists: [URL]http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/fsharp_for_scientists/[/URL] and I am so happy with the results that we are going to write another book specifically on the use of graphics from the F# language. Also, as .NET programs, F# programs can be executed on non-Windows platforms using tools like Mono. In the case of a DirectX-based visualization, you would probably need to write another back-end targetting OpenGL. [/QUOTE]