>> BTW, I was thinking about just inventing my own new SDL language and 
>> writting a program that can convert it to standard POV-Ray SDL. But, 
>> unfortunately, this would of course involve writing a parse, so that 
>> project never really got anywhere...
> 
>   A project like that would be more or less a waste of time.

...so in other words, pretty much like *every* project I start? ;-)

>   A new SDL language should be such that it can be interpreted even
> at render time (in order to create, among other things, shaders).

Well at the moment everybody is focused on finishing the new beta. I'm 
not on the dev team, but I imagine they won't be finished any time soon, 
given the scope of the changes.

Also, as far as I'm aware, making a brand new SDL that breaks all 
existing scenes isn't high up on their priority list either.

Theoretically I could make a patch to the existing POV-Ray source code - 
except that since I can't read C that might be slightly difficult...

So my plan was to write a preprocessor. Obviously it's never going to 
add any new features to POV-ray, but it could make it easier to describe 
scenes algorithmicly.

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