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In article <2945@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> wesommer@athena.mit.edu
(William Sommerfeld) writes:

>NeWS programming requires you to know two radically different
>languages (extended PostScript and, presumably, C) and switch between
>them quickly; X only requires one (for now, C or Common Lisp; ... 

Just because PostScript went to the trouble to include useful things
like control structures, doesn't mean that it is any harder to learn
and understand than a large set of C function calls (the X library,
toolkit, etc.).

Remember, a language is just a set of conventions for communication.
The interface to a library is certainly such a language.  Indeed, a
good case can be made that an extensible, complete language (such as
PostScript) is easier to learn than a set of subroutine calls, since
desired operations can be built up from a smaller set of primitive
operations (an example of this would be some arbitrary dashed line,
which might not be provided in a library of dashed lines, but which
could always be coded up using an iterator in a complete language).

Wm Leler
The PIX Project