POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Context switching : Re: Context switching Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:20:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Context switching  
From: Invisible
Date: 22 Apr 2010 07:22:00
Message: <4bd03158@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I still don't get why you'd need to do complex searching. And if for 
>> some strange reason you do need to, why use an obfuscated text string 
>> with limited processing capabilities when you can use a real programming 
>> language?
> 
>   Because you can write a simple search pattern in a matter of seconds,
> while writing the equivalent program would take you minutes at least.

Um... why? Three lines of text doesn't take "minutes" to write. And 
that's about all it takes to search a folder for a file matching a 
condition. (Obviously, it depends on how complicated the condition is...)


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