Xref: utzoo comp.lang.forth:581 comp.lang.postscript:988 comp.windows.news:799 comp.windows.misc:709 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mailrus!ames!pacbell!unet!childers 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 Lines: 24 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. -- "The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, ..!{amdahl,ames,oliveb,pacbell}! The prurient ape's defiling touch: childers@chaos.unet.pacbell.COM And do you like the human race ? No, not much." -- Aldous Huxley, 'Ape And Essence'