Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!humber!BECKER From: BECKER@humber (Bruce Becker) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: LispScript Message-ID: <8712030559.AA04915@brillig.umd.edu> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 13:12:16 EST Article-I.D.: brillig.8712030559.AA04915 Posted: Thu Dec 3 13:12:16 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Dec-87 06:08:51 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 12 Xlib and GKS aren't languages! Postscript is one, of a sort - the complaint is to its abominable syntax - it's somewhat like programming in Forth, or even a little like programming those old "smart" HP RPN calculators - it makes you think backwards to other syntaxes. Some actually like doing this, but it is easy to see that a simpler (NOT necessarily better/faster) interpreter was the priority item over programmer-friendliness. Or so it looks from here.. SO, putting a "nice" front-end like LispScript (or even, in some contexts, the SUN "compiler", is useful - sortof tames it a bit, like RatFor did for hoary old Fortran... Cheers, Bruce Becker Humber College Etobicoke, Ont.