POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Commercial project using POVRay : Re: Commercial project using POV-Ray Server Time
28 Apr 2024 15:02:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Commercial project using POV-Ray  
From: Stephen
Date: 23 Nov 2017 18:31:03
Message: <5a175a37$1@news.povray.org>
On 23/11/2017 16:56, David Buck wrote:
> On 2017-11-23 11:15 AM, Stephen wrote:
>> On 23/11/2017 15:57, David Buck wrote:
>>> Some 15 years ago
>>
>> There were some stroppy people around then. Now we are all older and 
>> more tolerant. ;-)
>>
>> BTW I noticed that you write POVRay, I write it as PovRay and the 
>> program itself is titled POV-Ray. I've always wondered if anyone gets 
>> irked at the different spellings.
>>
> 
> 
> I should be spelling it POV-Ray.  

So should I but I'm lazy. ;-)

>In the early days, there was some 
> discussion of the spelling.  I remembered that some people were calling 
> it PVRay.  I believe my original proposal was STAR.  

Ad astra would have been good. :-)

> I'm glad that 
> POV-Ray was chosen because it's much more Google friendly.
> 

In league with the Devil, then. :-P


-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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