"Jim Kress" <jim### [at] kressworkscom> wrote in message
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> 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.

I must agree with Jon (see his post). Your message shows a "fear" of the
conecept of "object oriented" that is totally unfounded.
I guess it is porbably mostly fueled by the fact that OO is such a
buzzword, and by (not very good) programmers that have learned
procedural programming and or now too afraid, too lazy or too snobbish
to learn something else, and thus give OO a stigma of "new and complex
and difficult to learn, with no real advantages" just to justify the
fact that they don't even want to look at it.

I am convinced that learning OO programming is in many cases easier than
learning procedural programming (if you are not already "spoiled" by a
procedural language) - and for POV OO would be perfect - easy to
understand and learn and very powerful.

I'm very interested how Mikael's work will turn out. Maybe POV-Ray will
go the way of C++? (meaning *not* that the language becomes like C++,
but that it will be an object oriented language that contains backwards
compatibility to the old language, like C++ contains good old C).

Greetings,
Johannes.

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