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From: childers@unet.pacbell.COM (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.postscript,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: type checking (I want PostScript) -- give NeWS a try!
Keywords: Forth, Lisp, Interactive PostScript, NeWS
Message-ID: <102@unet.pacbell.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 88 03:40:42 GMT
References: <17702@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <3566@druhi.ATT.COM> <13613@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: childers@unet.PacBell.COM (Richard Childers)
Organization: Network Equipment Technologies, Redwood City, CA
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In article <13613@mimsy.UUCP> don@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Don Hopkins) writes:

>Hey all you Forth enthusiasts (and antagonists!!!) out there:

Postscript is, *at best*, a highly specialized subset of Forth ...

>You can take a look and feel for yourself, if you go to the Sun User
>Group Southwest Regional Conference in Albuquerque, on September 30th.

Ah, I knew there was *something* commercial involved.

>I'll be demonstrating the HyperTIES hypermedia browser, and the
>UniPress Emacs text editor, two NeWS applications I've worked on that
>make extensive use of interactive PostScript.

And selling them, no doubt. Please don't use the Usenet for advertising,
covertly or overtly.


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