Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: LispScript Message-ID: <3046@phri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 20:27:39 EST Article-I.D.: phri.3046 Posted: Tue Dec 1 20:27:39 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 04:27:04 EST References: <17331.8711281826@aiva.ed.ac.uk> <833@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 15 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