>   Exactly as the current POV-Ray source code is a bunch of hacks over hacks
> and patches over patches, making it an unmaintainable chaotic mess, the
> SDL is pretty similar. The original SDL was never meant to be a programming
> language, just a data container format. However, over the years many
> programmatical features were added (read: kludged) over the old SDL.
> The result is a bloated, mostly ugly, limited and specially inefficient
> language.

Indeed - I recently started a project to make my own SDL, with my own 
interpreter, which would run the executable parts of the code, and 
finally spit out "normal" POV-Ray SDL at the end.

Naturally, since I magorly suck at building parsers, this little project 
did not progress far...

(I would like to say that - IMHO - as hacks go, POV-Ray [and it's SDL] 
turned out not too bad at all, really! :-) Respect...)

Andrew @ home.

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