POV-Ray SDL - Programming language

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POV-Ray SDL is a programming language created in 1991 by Chris Cason.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray

Source Code

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer: http://www.povray.org/

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POV-Ray SDL is developed on GitHub and has 1,334 stars
There are at least 3 POV-Ray SDL repos on GitHub
Early development of POV-Ray SDL happened in Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd
POV-Ray SDL is written in C++, C, HTML, XML, Ini, Bourne shell, Make, M4, Markdown, Pascal, YAML, Ada, Assembly language, CMake, C#, CSS, Perl, Smalltalk, SAS, awk, Python, WebAssembly, PowerShell, JavaScript, Diff, PHP
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 482 users using POV-Ray SDL in 493 repos on GitHub
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GitHub supports syntax highlighting for POV-Ray SDL
Read more about POV-Ray SDL on the web: 1.

Example from Linguist:

// This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
// To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a
// letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.

// Persistence Of Vision Ray Tracer Include File
// File: water.inc
// Desc: water for 'balcony.pov' demonstration scene
// Date: July/August 2001
// Auth: Christoph Hormann

// Updated: 09Aug2008 (jh) for v3.7 distribution

/*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*/

#if (version < 3.7)
  #version 3.5;
#end

#include "functions.inc"

#declare RMF=function{ f_ridged_mf(x, y, z, 0.07, 2.2,  7, 0.6, 0.9, 1)}

#declare M_Watx4 =
material {
  texture {
    pigment {
      color rgbt <0.2, 0.22, 0.21, 0.94>
    }
    finish {
      diffuse 0.0
      ambient -0.2

      reflection {
        0.0, 0.95
        fresnel on
      }

      conserve_energy

      specular 0.4
      roughness 0.007
    }
    normal{
      function { RMF(x, y, z) } 0.8
      scale 0.3
    }
  }
  interior {
    ior 1.31
    fade_distance 5
    fade_power 1001.0
    fade_color <0.02, 0.20, 0.06>
  }
}

plane {
  z, -1
  material {
    M_Watx4
  }
  hollow on
}

plane {
  z, -12.0

  texture {
    pigment { color rgb 0 }
    finish { ambient 0.0 diffuse 0.0 }
  }
  hollow on
}

/*%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%*/

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Integers	✓	// [0-9]+
Floats	✓	// [0-9]*\.[0-9]+
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X