Metapost programming language: Examples

See also the metafun addition, which works well with ConTeXt, a TeX macro package.

metafun: http://mirror.contextgarden.net/general/manuals/metafun-p.pd...

Also see: http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/

It would be fun if someone wrote a metapost implementation on top of SVG.

It would indeed.

I think SVG is a great idea, in theory; however, I've found SVG creation tools to be uniformly disappointing. Your suggestion, if reasonably well executed, would definitely be a step in the right direction.