andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> As you might have noticed, not everybody is convinced we should have one (SDL).

hello?!  Drop povray's SDL and povray is just among many rendering engines.
I believe to be the crown jewel of povray!

We should have one and only povray SDL and it should have easy syntax and
semantics, should be mostly declarative interspeced with a few useful
control flow commands and should be modular.  If someone wishes to program
in another language which suits his needs best, do it and create a program
in said language which compiles his scene or library to povray SDL, just
like today.

I think if povray loses its SDL, it'd lose its identity.  If it shipped just
with some sort of bytecode VM for which lots of languages could compile to,
it'd still lose its identity.

Povray needs its SDL, period.

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