David McCabe wrote:

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> Excuse me. I did not in any way intend to sound rude, arrogent, or whatever. 
> In fact, I think you've misinterpeted me altogether. Notice the last 
> paragraph, in which I say, "maybe it's the stupidest thing ever. Anyhoo, I 
> thought I'd mention it to you who know more than I do.".
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> By 'real', what I meant was, well, standard, or fully able to do anything, 
> almost general-purpose at least, as in "PostScript is unreal (you could 
> write a program in it, but it would be hard)".


I do not want to use POV to read my DVD:
If it was possible to write a DVD-reader/player software in pov SDL, it 
would be, IMO, a very bad thing!
I want POV to raytrace images!
Please, know and limit your goal for a language.
Performing account-balance or database access is IMO not the goal for POV.
Neither is performing telecommunication protocols (sending mail, 
browsing websites) or even solving NP-complete problem (even if a 
graphical display of the solution made with POV is usually a nice picture).
And I certainly do not want POV to be part of the realtime system in 
charge of the control of a powerfull facility (nuclear plant, but also 
hydroelectric, or what ever) [excepted if POV get the extra cycle of CPU 
to retrace an image in background, instead of using the classical 
looping idle-task]).

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