POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : Fuctions : Re: Fuctions Server Time
28 Jul 2024 20:26:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fuctions  
From: Disnel
Date: 4 Aug 2000 10:25:07
Message: <398AD243.4B65D420@itam.cas.cz>
Chris Huff wrote:
 Do you mean use Python for the framework/library, or for the scene
> description language?

For framework/library, of course. Use as scene description language
has all the bad things you meaned.

> If for the scene description language, what would be the benefits? Some
> of the problems would be: forcing a language not designed for scene
> description to be a scene description language, forcing everyone who
> uses POV to relearn the language, making all the sample code, scene
> files, includes, and macros out there completely useless, making POV
> more difficult to learn, etc, etc, etc.
> 
> If for the programmer's framework, I have already suggested Java, which
> probably has more people with experience in it, and has many
> similarities to C++ which would make a port easier.

Maybe.

> 
> And what does this have to do with the definition of a function?

Nothing, it should be one line down ;-).

Disnel


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