David McCabe <dav### [at] myrealboxcom> wrote:
> POV is not real...because it can't do everythingor it makes it really hard. 

  The POV-Ray SDL is a turing-complete language.
  "It's hard to use" is not a good definition of "real" scripting language.

  In fact, in some generic scripting language some things can be harder
to do than with POV-Ray SDL (ie. you need a lot more code to achieve the
same thing). Thus, "better" is always a subjective issue.

> POV is like PostScript, which you wouldn't exactly call a scripting 
> language, even though it can do that kind of thing to some degree.

  I see absolutely no reason for not calling it a scripting language.
As Chris mentioned, you can even make a raytracer with post-script (as
you can do with POV-Ray SDL, btw).

  Your definition of "scripting language" is a bit odd and quite unclear.

> Security is an issue whever you are writing a program. How is writing a 
> script for POV less secure then writing a script that runs alone?

  Have you noticed that POV-Ray 3.5 has new security settings? Have you
ever wondered why?

> No, the interpreter would be an *external dependency* (get used to it :-).

  Just one word: Portability.

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N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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