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  Re: the POV-ray SDL--similar to Java and/or Python?  
From: Orchid XP v3
Date: 12 Sep 2006 04:05:05
Message: <45066a31$1@news.povray.org>
> Fascinating. Thanks. Looks like I need to do a bit more research on what an
> OOP language really is.

Indeed yes.

The only "object oriented" thing about the SDL is that you create 
"objects" with it - as in, things that you can see on the screen.

"Object oriented programming" is a way of programming where you build 
program objects. Each such object belongs to a particular class and this 
defines what data the object contains and which operations can be 
performed upon it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

It would probably *be* useful if POV-Ray's SDL *was* OOP - but that is a 
debate that has been had many times, essentially without a consensus 
arrising.


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