Eugene
I see your points and I see how helpful they are.  Years ago, there was a
package made expressely for POVRAY.  I forgot the name of the package, but
it was written in a C - like language and it came with its 'compiler' that
'compiled' the scene written in it into a POVRAY script.  The language was
functional as it was heavily influenced by the C language but it implemented
every thing you mentioned.
So, I can see the power of what you are talking about.  And of course I do
not mean it by way of attacking POVRAY (I have been using POVRAY since the
Eighties), but by way of generating interesting ideas.
Maan

"Eugene Arenhaus" <eug### [at] avalon-netcoil> wrote in message
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> Well, hello again, and thank you for taking interest -
>
>  I feel I need to answer a few reoccurring questions and gripes. :)
>
>  First: Again, I did not mean to bash POV. I merely wanted to provide
> food for thought, not for target practice. :) Please try to not feel as
> if I am assaulting your favorite program (language, feature, etc.) -
> that was never my meaning.
>
>  Second: Yes, you are right, I am most likely not up to date with the
> cutting edge development done on POV 3.5, and for that I apologize. I am
> much more experienced with software design in general than with this
> particular program... My chief experience was with POV 3.1. Thank you
> for your comments. Still, my goal was to think of a broad picture, not
> to peck on particular features or tricks.
>
>  Third. No, it is not going to be a "completely different" language. In
> fact, it can be made to reuse most scene files with at worst some minor
> tweaking, if that goal is set. (With POV team saying themselves they
> aren't going to make POV4 100% compatible with version 3 - thou who hast
> not sinned... :) )
>
>  And last... the goal of the post was, again, to provide a broader
> picture as food for thought. I am not saying that there's no way to do
> [X] in POV for any given [X] - the idea was to eliminate the need for
> obscure, unintuitive, kludgy ways of doing that [X] for sake of an easy,
> flexible way of doing it. There is difference between having to write a
> whole program in POV script and merely plugging several objects
> together, don't you agree? What I meant that the design similar to what
> I outlines would really facilitate both making scenes and writing
> patches, and it seems that similar thoughts are not mine alone, if your
> corrections to my "gripes" are an indication - POV does move in that
> very direction.
>
> Thank you all.

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