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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: LispScript
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 20:27:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 20:27:39 1987
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In <833@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> des@jplpro.JPL.NASA.GOV (David Smyth) writes:
> PostScript reminds me of an intermediate language generated by a
> compiler, not a language suitable for human beings to think in.

	Not having been privy to the inner thoughts that went on in the
minds of the original postscript implementers, I would guess that this is
exactly what they had in mind.  Postscript is several things.  It's a
powerful general-purpose programming language with built-in graphics
operators.  It's easy to parse.  It's device independant.  And, while it is
indeed possible to write code directly in it, I don't think that is its
intended purpose.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016