In article <586### [at] 3-enet>, Daniel Matthews <dan### [at] 3-enet> 
wrote:

> There is nothing to stop the embedding of an existing OO language ( like 
> Ruby ) into the POV GUI with POV libraries or bindings to some form of POV 
> API. This meta scripting language could drive the GUI and external 
> utilities as well as be embedded into the POV SDL files.

Well, there is one thing: licensing. The current POV license is pretty 
restrictive (though for very good reasons).
Of course, you could just write a library in that other language that 
generates a scene and calls POV. That should be perfectly legal, as long 
as you don't hide the fact that your program/library is a separate piece 
of software using POV-Ray. That's what I am doing for the CSDL POV-Ray 
scene library, and I think Moray does it.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
POV-Ray TAG e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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