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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth,comp.lang.postscript,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: type checking (I want PostScript) -- give NeWS a try!
Summary: Learn PostScript, and learn NeWS, but not at the same time
Keywords: Forth, Lisp, Interactive PostScript, NeWS
Message-ID: <3492@phri.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 14:33:07 GMT
References: <13613@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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don@brillig.umd.edu.UUCP (Don Hopkins) writes:
> If you want to learn PostScript, NeWS is the way to go -- it's an exciting
> and gratifying programming environment!  Don't waste your time trying to
> learn an interactive interpretive language like PostScript by spooling files
> to a laser printer. NeWS isn't just for Display -- it's for Interaction!

	While I happen to be a true-blue fan of PostScript, and at least a
mild afficiando of NeWS, I can't agree that learning NeWS is the way to learn
PostScript.  It's like trying to learn yacc at the same time you are learning
C, or trying to appreciate Shakespere at the same time you are learning how to
read.  NeWS in a complex system and you can't hope to understand what is going
on unless you already know the fundementals of how PostScript works.
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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