In article <399d749a@news.povray.org>, "Thorsten Froehlich" 
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> Hmm, what about a language more like an object oriented lisp. For example
> (OK, not a great one):
> 
> set MyHouse to new house with 10 windows at <10,10,10>
> for every window of MyHouse add new curtain with colour red 0.4 green 0.9

Have you been playing with AppleScript lately? :-)
I haven't looked at lisp much, but this doesn't resemble what I have 
seen of it...I thought it had a lot of parenthesis, and a generally 
weird syntax? This does resemble AppleScript, though.


> I am serious!  Why would an object oriented POV scene description language
> have to look like C++???   Surely not just because POV-Ray uses {} and
> dot-style vector attribute access?   Anybody remember DKBTrace - it used
> Pascal like syntax (and there was already a skyvase.dat)!

So what you are suggesting would be a completely new language? Or would 
this somehow fit in with the current language?

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