POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Status of Moray? : Re: New SDL for POVRay Server Time
14 Jul 2025 01:56:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: New SDL for POVRay  
From: Alain
Date: 21 Sep 2007 10:39:50
Message: <46f3d7b6$1@news.povray.org>
Jérôme M. Berger nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/09/20 14:41:
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> Alain wrote:
>> 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 ;-)
>>
> 	Look more closely at his last sentence. Especially the capital
> letters... ;)
> 
> 		Jerome
It makes for a nice alternative for LISP, but not what the creators had in mind ;-)
Similar to:
I Built a Monster
It's Beter Manualy

The legend tell that those where from peoples working in THAT compagny...

-- 
Alain
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