Using Mel to create/animate geometry tia sal2

Greetings All,

I'm jumping in with MEL and would like to find out different ways to 
create 
geometry using Mel.  I've purchased the Digital Tutors Mel and have 
started experimenting.  The first thing I would like to do is 
create/animate a Clifford Torus being created.  Can Mel do this?  Are 
there any other tutorials you can recommend that will show me how to do 
this in MAYA 7.

Example of Clifford Torus
http://rsp.math.brandeis.edu/3D-
XplorMath/Surface/clifford_torus/clifford_torus.html


http://rsp.math.brandeis.edu/3D-
XplorMath/Surface/clifford_torus/clifford_torus_lg1.html

TIA