Jim Kress wrote:

> An evolution to a Basic like syntax would be OK.
>
> Object Oriented - heaven help us!!  The programmers (some) might like this
> but I think the rest of us casual users would be driven away.

No. No. Really. OO for POV-Ray would be nice.

Trust me.  :-)


In all seriousness, object oriented would work very well for POV-Ray, since it
models... objects!

If you are hand-coding POV-Ray, then you have to start thinking about the
objects you are making, primitives, meshes, etc. and where they go and how they
interact and what properties they have...

It's already a little OO, but going more so in the proper manner (notice I just
said "in the proper manner") might help greatly.


For those who learn other types of programming first, OO gets a little
difficult to pick up. But I believe that in general learning OO as a first
language is easier.

There are cases where an OO language might not be appropriate, but since the
concepts in POV-Ray are already so similar, it makes OO a good choice for
POV-Ray. Many of the concepts that make learning an OO language 'more
difficult' than learning VB are concepts that need to be learned for POV-Ray
itself.

OO was also used by Macromind in their Lingo in Director. Director was
definitely not for programmers but for designers. For their needs, it was very
good.

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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