> You are aware of the language POV-Ray is written in, aren't you? And
> that probably the only group on this server with a higher concentration
> of coders and patch writers is povray.unofficial.patches? ;-)

Er... well...

'Oh dear'... I think I might be in trouble here... [Smiles sweetly and exits
stage left]

> I think C++ is an even better example. There you have an ugly library
> *and* a language that you can do all sorts of bizzare stuff in.
> Perl is more obfuscated in normal use, but you can't do as much. Either
> one can be reduced to something that doesn't resemble anything
> human-readable.

I hate Perl. I can't get it to work at all. It's nasty. I've had more sucess
with C, although it's just too dam hard to read... (I was actually trying to
write an object engine... *you* try manipulating pointers to pointers to
arrays of pointers to functions! Very hard when you don't have any sort of
manual ;-) Not to mention the danger of leaving pointers dangling... I
wouldn't *dare* try it with anything other than Linux 8-D (But then... I've
never heard of a C compiler that works on anything but Linux. I'm sure such
things must _exist_, but I've never come across one...)

Andrew.

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