IMHO povray is very good at what it does. That is only one thing that annoys
me. It is the fact that you cannot hold variable values from one frame to
another. But, then again, that wouldn't be very easy to implement, I
suppose. Using files to store values is a bit cumbersome.
But anyway, it still rocks just as it is now.

All the best

Fidel.

in article 3D8### [at] freefr, Le Forgeron at jgr### [at] freefr wrote
on 20/9/02 9:29 am:

> David McCabe wrote:
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>> Excuse me. I did not in any way intend to sound rude, arrogent, or whatever.
>> In fact, I think you've misinterpeted me altogether. Notice the last
>> paragraph, in which I say, "maybe it's the stupidest thing ever. Anyhoo, I
>> thought I'd mention it to you who know more than I do.".
>> 
>> By 'real', what I meant was, well, standard, or fully able to do anything,
>> almost general-purpose at least, as in "PostScript is unreal (you could
>> write a program in it, but it would be hard)".
> 
> 
> I do not want to use POV to read my DVD:
> If it was possible to write a DVD-reader/player software in pov SDL, it
> would be, IMO, a very bad thing!
> I want POV to raytrace images!
> Please, know and limit your goal for a language.
> Performing account-balance or database access is IMO not the goal for POV.
> Neither is performing telecommunication protocols (sending mail,
> browsing websites) or even solving NP-complete problem (even if a
> graphical display of the solution made with POV is usually a nice picture).
> And I certainly do not want POV to be part of the realtime system in
> charge of the control of a powerfull facility (nuclear plant, but also
> hydroelectric, or what ever) [excepted if POV get the extra cycle of CPU
> to retrace an image in background, instead of using the classical
> looping idle-task]).
> 
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