POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : #read Annoyance : Re: #read Annoyance Server Time
3 Aug 2024 16:18:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: #read Annoyance  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 8 Jan 2004 12:38:25
Message: <3ffd9591$1@news.povray.org>
In article <3ffd8bc0@news.povray.org> , "Hugo Asm" <hua### [at] post3teledk> 
wrote:

> I think it had something to do with platform-independancy, so it wouldn't
> work.

No, it has nothing to do with that at all.

It is simply the way read is designed to be easy to use by the average user
(as it detects the data type and so on).  POV-Ray is a ray-tracer after all,
not a general purpose scripting language.

    Thorsten

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