Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> 
>>It might be worthwhile to consider the use of an existing scripting 
>>language that's designed to be embedded in other programs, and use that 
>>for the scripting language.
> 
> 
>   That has been considered many times, but doesn't seem to be a good
> solution.
>   POV-Ray needs a language specific for POV-Ray. Using a generic
> programming language will make many things too awkward and hard to
> use (too many things will have to be kludged).
>   Besides, optimally the new language will somewhat resemble the
> current one so that the learning curve will not be as steep. Most
> POV-Ray users have never used any other language and learning a
> new language which is similar to the current SDL will be easier
> than learning a completely different language.
> 
I don't understand that one. Why should people _need_ to learn new 
languages. If there is just a frontend that is able to create SDL code 
they'd still have SDL code to work with. They won't be able to 
effectively modify it but they aren't now either in many cases (those 
that are just to hard to be treated with common SDL).

Regards,
Bernd Fuhrmann

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