Tony[B] <ben### [at] catholicorg> wrote:
: I can't wait till I learn to program...

  You sound like you expect to learn to program C in a couple of weeks and
go right away and modify the POV-Ray source code.
  Learning programming in such an extent that you are able to easily and
nicely modify a program like POV-Ray requires years of programming
experience (preferably from good sources of information).

  Many novice programmers have the funny misconception that they just
learn how to write programs with a programming language and they can
just right away write a Quake clone from the scratch.
  Programming is just a tool. Knowing the syntax of a programming language
doesn't give you automatically the knowledge to make big programs.
  It's comparable to knowing how to write mathematical formulas and think
that you could right away deduce the Maxwell equations from basic mathematical
and physical axioms. Or that you could write a best-seller book because you
know how to write english.

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