In article <3edf58c8@news.povray.org>,
 "Ray Gardener" <ray### [at] daylongraphicscom> wrote:

> Because the SDL is not always the preferred language.
> A person might have legacy code in another language,
> or prefer to use C++ because it's object oriented,
> or compiled code runs faster when object generation
> involves some complex process, etc. All else being
> equal, I'd rather write in C/C++ just because... I'm
> tired of having to type "#declare" every time I
> want to assign a value to a variable in SDL.

Try MegaPOV...IIRC, it includes my #set patch. Not exactly the same as 
in languages like C++, but an improvement.
Anyway, there are reasons for the current scene language. With one 
common scene language, everybody understands each other. And with that 
language under the control of the writers of the program, it can be 
designed specially for the job of scene description. I've done scenes in 
C++, and while great for complex algorithms, it is unwieldy for just 
describing a scene. On top of this, it reduces dependencies on platforms 
and external software packages...not everybody has a C++ compiler, and a 
text source file can be freely exchanged without worries about 
processors, OS's, languages, or compiler versions.

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