POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Status of Moray? : Re: New SDL for POVRay Server Time
14 Jul 2025 01:54:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL for POVRay  
From: William Tracy
Date: 20 Sep 2007 14:10:00
Message: <46f2b778$1@news.povray.org>
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Nicolas George wrote:
> My point is to show that, although it is not possible to keep exactly the
> same syntax as the current one, it is possible to use a real programming
> language while keeping the syntactic noise very low.

If we're going to re appropriate an existing language, maybe we could
look at some of the functional languages (Lisp, ML, etc.).

I don't normally like functional programming, but it does strike me as a
good match for describing scenes.

- --
William Tracy
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these quotes more unsettling than funny.
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