I must say that the concept of rewriting POV 4.0
for/in/by/beneath/with/ontopof    C++ causes the non-programmer in me to
tremble.  What does this mean? Will the source code be rewritten more
efficiently in C++ or will one have to be a C++ afficiando in order to
understand the language?

I like the fact that POV 3.x is not too different from the BASIC I
learned as a teenager.  I am trying to teach myself Java, and I think
Java stinks.  Anti-intuitiveness and stupid descriptions of variables
and functions abound!  I've also spent more time reading about the
"benefits" of object-oriented programming  and encapsulation and
inheritance than I have actual Java coding, and I'm very unimpressed.
I'm continuing to learn in case there  is some 3-D application in my
career someday, but it's not as fun as POV.

Is this the ultimate programmer's revenge? Kicking us non CS-er's out of
the POV community?

________________
Greg M. Johnson
"The program I just wrote is a patentable, new technology,"
said the CS to the Fellow of the Materials Research Society.

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