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3 Nov 2024 20:10:08 EST (-0500)
  Re: Yet another Doctor John rant  
From: Doctor John
Date: 1 Apr 2008 09:02:49
Message: <47f24089$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
>> ...and the way I learnt was by playing with the various config files and
>> making (frequent) mistakes. :-)
> 
> Dude, that's like trying to learn POV-Ray without reading the manual! o_O
> 
It worked for me :-) I started to read the manuals after I had
internalised the structure. I learnt POV much the same way. Ditto many
other things I do. Manuals don't work with me until I've got a mental
feel for the subject then I use them to polish the finished product.
(Mixed metaphors all over the place but ykwim)

... and before you ask, Standing up in a hammock on a 42ft yacht in a
force 9 in the North Atlantic :-D

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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