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Article #6879Re: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT
From: Greg Lee
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1988 16:03
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1988 16:03
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From article <6686@ccv.bbn.COM>, by lawrence@bbn.COM (Gabriel Lawrence): > In article <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU> mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes: > ... > in harnessing the power of PostScript as a programming language. This is > a viable/interesting idea - so far as I know, the only existing mechanisms for > parsing PostScript are run-time interpreters. Just don't ask me to support PS code enclosed in braces is specified as compiled. That might mean pseudo-compilation or compilation to machine code. I wrote a subset implementation for PS, to be found in comp.sources.amiga, which compiles to machine code. So the remark about interpreters needs qualification. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT Message-ID: <1567@uhccux.UUCP> Date: 12 Feb 88 16:03:20 GMT References: <6686@ccv.bbn.COM> Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) Lines: 12