POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Status of Moray? : Re: New SDL for POVRay Server Time
13 Jul 2025 18:41:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL for POVRay  
From: Alain
Date: 19 Sep 2007 17:51:15
Message: <46f199d3$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/09/19 17:10:
> "Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] povplacecom> wrote:
>> I mean: as it is now, POV-SDL has a C-like syntax.  I think it would be a
>> very bad idea to change the POV-SDL into a BASIC-like syntax, or a
>> Python-like syntax
> 
> hey, how about pretty much no syntax at all?
> 
> (union (plane y (pigment (checker 0 1)))
>          (sphere 0 1
>                  (texture (pigment (rgb x))
>                           (finish (phong 0.8 30)))))
> (light-source white (* 5 #(-1 1 -1)))
> (camera (z -3) 0)
> 
> well, except for Lots of Irritating Silly Parentheses, that is... :)
> 
> 
> 
Makes me think of Lisp! TONS of parenteses ;-)

-- 
Alain
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into tyranny.
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