POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Pov 4.00 question : Re: Pov 4.00 question Server Time
7 Aug 2024 03:18:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pov 4.00 question  
From: Warp
Date: 30 Jan 2002 18:04:41
Message: <3c587c08@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
:> There is nothing to stop the embedding of an existing OO language ( like 
:> Ruby ) into the POV GUI with POV libraries or bindings to some form of POV 
:> API. This meta scripting language could drive the GUI and external 
:> utilities as well as be embedded into the POV SDL files.

: Well, there is one thing: licensing. The current POV license is pretty 
: restrictive (though for very good reasons).

  I think that what he proposed was not embedding *povray* into a language
interpreter, but the other way around, ie. embedding a language interpreter
*into* povray. That is, just make a patch for another scripting language
support.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -


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