In article <3DB### [at] starmanee>,
 Vahur Krouverk <vkr### [at] starmanee> wrote:

> Why G? Why not Cg or RenderMan SL? They have also C-like syntax and do 
> same thing basically. And then you can use existing shaders without 
> conversion.

Because:
1: I don't know them.
2: I'm doing this largely as an experiment in designing this kind of 
language and interpreter, duplicating others would be useless.
3: Others have already done interpreters for those.
4: I can make whatever changes I want and try out new ideas.

Once I have it up and running (which will happen much sooner than for 
Sapphire, it is a very simple language), I'll look at making compilers 
for other languages that use the same VM (I'm especially interested in 
Cg), but I'll have to learn them first.

-- 
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
http://tag.povray.org/

Post a reply to this message