Re: Compiled PostScript

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From: Dick Dunn
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1990 06:54

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In article <550@jvc.UUCP>, lpw@jvc.UUCP (Lance Welsh) writes:

> If these people think that parsing PS and writing grammars is a trivial snap:
[...I had written...]
> > The BNF of PostScript is so trivial it's (a) uninteresting and (b)
> > unhelpful.  The parser is a snap;...
...
>...then why have we never seen anyone post a BNF for postscript or a
> public domain parser?  I'll bet it's harder than they think.

If you knew, you wouldn't have to bet!

I posted the BNF, but I'm not surprised you missed it, since it was only
two lines long (and even that was loquacious).
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com    uucp: {ncar,nbires}!ico!rcd     (303)449-2870
   ...Mr. Natural says, "Use the right tool for the job."

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ico!rcd
From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Compiled PostScript
Summary: wanna see it again?
Message-ID: <1990Jan14.065405.16860@ico.isc.com>
Date: 14 Jan 90 06:54:05 GMT
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