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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.postscript,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Why you should use NeWS as a tool to learn PostScript
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Date: 21 Sep 88 18:44:37 GMT
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From article <13655@mimsy.UUCP>, by don@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins):
"...
" going to be able to harness its power, you've got to understand the
" semantics. And playing around with an interactive interpreter is a
" quick and fun way to find out how it works.

Maybe not all readers of this discussion know that you can do a
certain amount of playing around without NeWS.  The PS interpreter
inside the Apple LW, at least, has an interactive mode.  You can
can have it calculate and display values on your screen, so long
as the values have string values.  For images, you have to wait
for a page to print, though, so that slows things down.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu