Ken <ken### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> I am still unconvinced that the greater majority will be served by the
> addition of OO capabilities.

  They will.

  Learning to program OO programs is not the only way of benefiting from it.
It's obvious that if POV-Ray had a full-featured object-oriented scripting
language, only a few percentage of POV-Ray users would learn to use it at
its full strength.
  However, that doesn't mean only this small percentage will benefit from it.

  Having a good, full-featured OO language means that those hc programmers
can make better libraries which are more powerful and very easy to use.
If designed correctly, everyone can use these libraries without much
effort or learning, thus indirectly benefiting from the power of the
language.

  Think of it like this: You don't need to know how your fully graphical
operating system works internally: The hc programmers which made that OS
have already figured out the difficult parts for you and made a simple
user interface for you to benefit from these properties. Even though
you may not know how to program hardware and other types of low-level
things, you still are indirectly benefiting from it because someone else
made an easy-to-use interface to use it.
  However, these few hc programmers need the tools to make their programs.
If they don't have the tools, then everyone is on their own.

-- 
plane{-x+y,-1pigment{bozo color_map{[0rgb x][1rgb x+y]}turbulence 1}}
sphere{0,2pigment{rgbt 1}interior{media{emission 1density{spherical
density_map{[0rgb 0][.5rgb<1,.5>][1rgb 1]}turbulence.9}}}scale
<1,1,3>hollow}text{ttf"timrom""Warp".1,0translate<-1,-.1,2>}//  - Warp -

Post a reply to this message