Jamie Davison <jam### [at] dh70qdu-netcom> wrote:

> On 20 Nov 2000 05:22:15 -0500, Warp wrote...
>> : Sorry if I'm ranting, but I get a little fed up of seeing people trying 
>> : to turn POV into a programming language, when, in my opinion, it isn't 
>> : and shouldn't be.
>> 
>>   But the povray scripting language IS a programming language (since it's
>> Turing-strong).
>>   Making it a better programming language can make only good.

> By better, I assume you mean more like other, established general purpose 
> programming languages, e.g. C, C++?

> Personally, that doesn'y fit my definition of 'better'  But that's 
> probably just me.

> Of course it's entirely possible that I'm misinterpreting something 
> somewhere along the lines.

Or he could mean better as in making the obvious logical steps that can save
time and energy for everyone.  Or maybe making the parsing of the syntax
smarter and not doing stupid, unnecessary operations.

But that's probably me.

Geoff

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