POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : 4.0 Feature discussion : Re: 4.0 Feature discussion Server Time
9 Aug 2024 17:19:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 4.0 Feature discussion  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 27 Sep 2000 09:39:27
Message: <slrn8t3v0n.7hh.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:43:10 +0200, Alessandro Coppo wrote:
>
>Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:39cf092b@news.povray.org...
>>   Isn't povray scripting language already something like that?
>
>Well, not EVEN REMOTELY comparable to the power of Perl! Just an example: I
>have seen an XML parser in Perl which was written in just 30 lines...

I've seen a POV program that makes a PNG of a reflective sphere on a checkered 
plane in just one line.  Let's see you do that with Perl.

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