Agreed once you learn one, and understand the
principles, all the others just fall into place
infront of your eyes.

I'm going to teach myself Pearl next week.

Steve

Spider wrote:
> 
> Whatever people(I) say about javascript, it is a form of programming, and any
> form of programming is useful, since the basic thinking can be applied to most
> other programming languages.
> 
> I know this by practice, since once I learned Pascal, I found it very easy to
> switch to Java or C, as well as it was even easier to understand the simpler
> script languages(mIRC scrips....)
> 
> Thomas Lake wrote:
> >
> > Ahh I see. I don't know how to program but I do know JavaScript and this is very
> > similar to the do while loops in JavaScript. Thanks for clarifying.
> >
> > Spider wrote:
> >
> > > Macros are easy to use, they are basically a set of operations bundled together.
> > > To add the use, you can call this set with different in-data.
> > >
> > > But before using a macro, It would be best to learn how to code.
> > >
> > > A good thing for this would be a #while() loop, stepping with the amount of
> > > bricks in the wall, multiplying with the offset.
> > >
> > > This will create one line. to create more, just add another loop, but in height.
> > >
> > > (untested)this should be something like what you want.
> > >
> > > #declare nX = 10;
> > > #declare nY = 5;
> > > #declare brick = box { <0,0,0>,<1,0.5,1> pigment{ mortarRed }
> > > #declare offset = 0.5;
> > >
> > > #declare Y = nY;
> > > #while(Y>0)
> > >   #declare X = nX;
> > >   #while(X>0)
> > >     object { brick translate <X*offset,0,Y*offset> }
> > >     #declare X = X -1;
> > >   #end
> > >   #declare Y = Y - 1;
> > > #end
> > >
> > > Margus Ramst wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thomas Lake wrote in message <37094515.5FC05DCC@home.com>...
> > > > >
> > > > >>Ken Tyler
> > > > >>Everyone knows that indenting mortar would be a mad and lunatic
> > > > >>endeavour beneath even the lowest and unworthy Pov-ray user out
> > > > >>there.
> > > > >
> > > > >What do you mean? Joke?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Long story...
> > > >
> > > > Margus
> > >
> > > --
> > > //Spider
> > >         [ spi### [at] bahnhofse ]-[ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
> > > What I can do and what I could do, I just don't know anymore
> > >                 "Marian"
> > >         By: "Sisters Of Mercy"
> 
> --
> //Spider
>         [ spi### [at] bahnhofse ]-[ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
> What I can do and what I could do, I just don't know anymore
>                 "Marian"
>         By: "Sisters Of Mercy"

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