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Article #9078Re: PostScript Language
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 17:13
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 17:13
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In article <147@heaven.woodside.ca.us> glenn@heaven.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes: >No, I think PostScript succeeded mainly because it is ASCII. I'd even go one step farther--I think PostScript succeeded mainly because it's *source code*. An ASCII format that isn't human readable isn't really much better than a binary format. Putting a real live interpreter inside the printer was a stroke of genius. -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation -- "Many of the things we hold true depend greatly upon our own point of view." --Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Return of the Jedi"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!amanda From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript Language Message-ID: <1990Feb26.171333.3377@intercon.com> Date: 26 Feb 90 17:13:33 GMT References: <9447@imagen.UUCP> <38910@apple.Apple.COM> <147@heaven.woodside.ca.us> Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA Lines: 14