In article <3db6d235$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Greg M. Johnson" <gregj:-)565### [at] aolcom> wrote:

> Well, the old dilemma where I cannot write   #declare a=x^2.5;   anymore.
> Common practice (and sense?) conflicted with one of the more obtuse (using
> nice words here) features of a few programming languages, so the whole SDL
> gets rewritten.

"def a = x^2.5;" is more obtuse than "#declare a = x^2.5;"?
It really sounds like you just dislike anything that is different or 
unfamiliar.


> >> Don't make it eclectic.
> Isn't there a word that rhymes with this that means "of interest to, or
> understandable by, only a small group of people"?

I think the word you are looking for is "esoteric", also "arcane", 
"mysterious", "inscrutible". And "POV-Script" would already qualify for 
that quite well...it is a pretty strange language, relatively unknown 
compared to most other languages, and eclectic in that it borrows bits 
and pieces from many other langauges. It also makes you learn a lot more 
than is necessary, and has many quirks and inconsistencies. Cleaning it 
up and making it easier to learn will be necessary to get it to a larger 
group of people.

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