Patrick Elliott wrote:

<snip long story about programming language>

In all this talk about this or that programming language I feel that one
question is being side stepped. Does POV really need a new language or can
all this be accomplished with a good spring cleaning of the SDL. Most of
the discussion going on at the moment is far too technically language
specific. Mind you, I know zip about the innards of any language, but I do
know that if and when the current SDL is replaced by something entirely
different you are going to upset a large portion of the POV user group.

And then there is that other discussion going on about what all one would
want inside POV. Do I want it to convert my images to JPG? Heck no. I want
them in a lossless format. Top quality. For the occasional post here I'll
compress it separately. Do I want POV to be able to create animations on
the go? Nope. There are plenty programs out there that will do a much
better job will all the thrills and frills of an editing studio. I
personally use MainActor and I don't see any way one could combine that
into POV. The same goes for any form of post processing. The best one can
do is a very limited form of The Gimp and the likes. 

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying all these discussions are wrong but lets
not forget that POV needs 3 things most. Speed, more speed and some speed.
In my view POV is a (restructured) SDL and parser with a lean and mean
render engine behind it. 
-- 
Ger

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