> I think this little exercise is getting out of hand.

	I must admit, I was surprised to see the reaction
	to our quiet little conversation...  You'd think
	that the current scripting is the be all and
	end-all of scripting.  I can understand people
	getting worried about "elitist programmer types"
	wanting to impose new paradigms - but all we're 
	doing is talking about it.  The POV team are
	conservative about making changes - this ensures
	that users will not get bulldozed....

	A basic criteria for me would be that the parser
	is modularised, so that the "old" parser and the
	"new" parser would still both work.  I personally
	don't want to tell people to do things "my" way,
	I just think that POV script is TOO MUCH like C
	programming, and a bit too unstructured.  That is
	my opinion as an experienced C and C++ programmer.
	I'd like POV data to be a bit more "open" in terms
	of exchange with other applications.  (Even
	between different versions of POV... :-)

	So, although I'm kindof impressed with the
	reaction, please lets keep some perspective.

	We're not talking about turning POV into a modeller.
	We're saying that the scene files can be strutured
	so that GUI based editing is more feasible. 

	Now, Jon, lets rename our thread to 
	"Re: Porting POV to Java" so that we can get some 
	peace.. :-)


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