POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : The Language of POV-Ray : Re: The Language of POV-Ray Server Time
11 Aug 2024 03:27:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Language of POV-Ray  
From: PoD
Date: 14 Mar 2000 15:13:44
Message: <38CEA334.FE639FFE@merlin.net.au>
Nigel Stewart wrote:
> 
> > I think if this replaced POV-Script, people would go to other things
> > instead, and if it was an option along with POV-Script, very few
> > people would use it(even modellers would probably output in
> > POV-Script for file size reasons).
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> A consistently negative reaction...
> An idea before it's time?
> Or a community behind the times?
> 

XML defined languages are for ease of computer parsing, not for ease of
human writing/reading, though they are human readable since they're
plain text.

Also XML is for markup languages. OK for modeller output, not so good
for POV.
I don't think loops, macros etc. work well in XML.

PoD.


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