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Zenin <zenin@best.com> wrote:
>	HTML *is* a language.  It's not a "programing" language any more
>	then PostScript, but it is a language.

Who says PostScript isn't a programming language?  Send the following
to your PostScript printer, and then hold the output page up to a
mirror.  Remember that each ^D (the one at the beginning and the one
at the end) is <Ctrl>D, a single character.


%!PS-Adobe-1.0
[ 1 neg 0 0 1 8.5 72 mul 0 ] concat
/Courier findfont 10 scalefont setfont
/s80 80 string def
72 710 moveto
(The square root of 2, computed with the native sqrt function, is  ) show
2 sqrt s80 cvs show
(.) show
72 700 moveto
(The square root of 2, approximated so as to maximize ugliness, is ) show
/result    1.0 def
/increment 1.0 def
/madness   100 def
0 1 madness
{
  pop
  result increment add dup mul 2 lt
  {
    /result result increment add def
  } if
  /increment increment 2 div def
} for
result s80 cvs show
(.) show
showpage


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