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>
>> There are a few Germans in the POV-Ray community, but Warp's not one of
>> them - he's Finnish.
>
>  Maybe in the country he lives in it's all the same... Germany, Finland...
> what's the difference? Crazy Europeans all of them. ;)
>
>  (Well, not that I can blame anybody. For example to me places like
> Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana are all the same. South
> United States. Aren't they all the same? To locals this might be a
> sacrilege for all I know... :P )
>
Let's call it "perspective" :)

Marc

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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> > Am 03.08.2010 22:47, schrieb nemesis:
>
> > > "   6.  The joke is German, where a lot of jokes are explained in the end, for
> > > some reason."
> > >
> > > zat's for Warp and clipka... LOL
>
> > There are a few Germans in the POV-Ray community, but Warp's not one of
> > them - he's Finnish.
>
>   Maybe in the country he lives in it's all the same... Germany, Finland...
> what's the difference? Crazy Europeans all of them. ;)

Germany gave us Bach and Beethoven.  Finland gave us ice and Linux. :)

no, I knew you were finn, just forgot it while writing...

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On 8/3/2010 1:08 PM, Darren New wrote:
> I must say, the UI to this set of programs really, really sucks.
>
> I far prefer netpbm, where each program did one thing well, read stdin
> and wrote stdout, and didn't reuse the same command-line arguments for a
> bunch of different meanings and have all kinds of bizarre option-order
> conditions.
>

They have an awesome set of tutorials that kind of make up for it. I 
would much rather use a scripting language (or less preferably XML) 
instead of tacking on an endless series of command-line arguments, though.


-- 
http://isometricland.com

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On 8/5/2010 10:35 PM, SharkD wrote:
> They have an awesome set of tutorials that kind of make up for it. I
> would much rather use a scripting language (or less preferably XML)
> instead of tacking on an endless series of command-line arguments, though.

Also, ImageMagick's command-line syntax still makes 10x more sense than 
SQL. For example:

  INSERT INTO clients
  (client_id, client_name, client_type)
  SELECT supplier_id, supplier_name, 'advertising'
  FROM suppliers
  where clients.client_id = suppliers.supplier_id);

The first set of column names is contained in parentheses, the second 
set isn't.

When creating filegroups you don't use quotes:

   ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks ADD FILEGROUP MyFileGroup

When adding files to them you do use them:

   ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks
   ADD FILE
   (NAME = N'MyFileGroup',
   FILENAME = N'C:\AdventureWorks\MyFileGroup.ndf',
   SIZE = 5MB,
   MAXSIZE = 100MB,
   FILEGROWTH = 5MB)
   TO FILEGROUP MyFileGroup

Conditional IF statements don't use brackets or a keyword to close the 
block (though I just learned that you can optionally surround the block 
with BEGIN and END).



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SharkD wrote:
> They have an awesome set of tutorials that kind of make up for it.

If you can find what you're looking for, yeah.

I still prefer the netpbm technique of actually making several dozen 
programs that actually work in a pipeline, so you can just find the program 
you want rather than having to try to guess at syntax for arguments.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.

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nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Germany gave us Bach and Beethoven.  Finland gave us ice and Linux. :)

  Don't forget Nokia.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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>> Germany gave us Bach and Beethoven.  Finland gave us ice and Linux. :)
> 
>  Don't forget Nokia.

Yes I was thinking that, and the Molotov cocktail :-)

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