In article <3d359736@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

> Christian Parpart <cpa### [at] surakwarenet> wrote:
> > Well, as of the documentation it's a scene-describing-language.
> > That's IMHO kind of markup language (please correct me).
> > Though, it's no programming language, such as C, C++, or Pascal, is it?
> 
>   No, it's not a markup language. It's a scripting language.

Well, I would consider it a hybrid. It definitely has some 
characteristics of a markup language, you could make a complete scene 
without using anything resembling a programming command, but as you 
said, it is Turing-strong.
I would say it is a programming language just as much as C, C++, Ruby, 
Perl, Python, etc. (I consider "scripting languages" to be a subset of 
programming languages) However, it was created by extending a markup 
language, and can be used as just an ordinary markup/description 
language if you want.

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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
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