Christoph Hormann wrote:
> In short:  Simple tasks like a reflective sphere over checkered plane 
> need to be straight away to implement and to read - without knowing 
> about language concepts.  Like in the current SDL version of such a 
> simple scene the purpose of every token should be intuitively 
> understandable.  More complex features of the language would need to be 
> optional additions to this.

Putting this another way: POV-Ray's SDL grew from a simple means of
providing an object description to something that had many of the
traditional language constructs, while still retaining the ability to
define a scene in terms of objects with no 'programming' as such. This is a
Good Thing since it allows non-programmers to work with it and may have
been a significant factor in POV's acceptance.

Thus, I suspect it is desirable that any new 'official' SDL have the same
ability.

-- Chris

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