On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:12:04 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>>> The kind of tasks I typically want to do involve heavy number
>>> crunching. Scripting languages aren't terribly suitable to this...
>> 
>> Scripting languages aren't designed for performance, as a general rule,
>> so yes, that wouldn't be appropriate for a scripting language if you
>> have complex calculations or lots of data to process.
> 
> This is the problem with POV-Ray's SDL. People *have* built physics
> engines with it, but it's really not fantastically suitable for that
> task...

Well, I don't know that I'd call it a problem per se, more of a 
limitation to be aware of.

Jim

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