In article <39a1245e@news.povray.org>, "Thorsten Froehlich" 
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Then, start from there and add the same features from scratch to be 
> more restrictive and combine it with a simple and powerful 
> programming language that can be fully integrated into the scene 
> description much more dynamically. 

Do you have a specific programming language in mind as the inspiration 
for this?


> Details and features would have to be analysed very well in advance, 
> but then it might offer fantastic abilities.  Just image to be able 
> to create one object which can exist a million times just by a 
> procedural definition.  To keep this simple and easy to comprehend 
> and fast to render, a lot more would have to be done and researched, 
> but I think something like this is possible.

This sounds like a very interesting proposal, but it would really have 
to be done right. Maybe it should be a translator at first, which 
produces a .pov scene file from the new language, that way, you could 
experiment with changes to the new language with more freedom. This is 
the approach I am going to attempt CSDL with...that is, if I ever get 
going with Bison and Flex.

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