Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> 
>>C coding with a basic understanding of C++ would probably be sufficient for
>>many of the tasks in re-writing the code that has to be replaced. Recall that
>>all the POV code was originally c, and the fundamental core of the algorithms
>>and objects are still readable by a C programmer.
> 
> 
> Please don't let POV-Ray be written in "C plus classes". C++ is so much more
> than that! :)

Well, since you were the first one to say it...

Yeah, C++ has more features than the classes, but the classes provide a 
great deal of the advantage that C++ has over C, mainly because of the 
way that classes lead to better organization of code.

The polymorphism helps a lot, too, but on a project as large as POV-Ray, 
the ability to organize code in a consistent way will bring benefits 
that will make the benefit from other features easy to overlook.

Regards,
John

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