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From: Ballard.pa@XEROX.COM (Stoney Ballard)
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Subject: Re: Compiling to PostScript
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 18:31:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 18:31:59 1987
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>   If you are going to compile some higher level language into PostScript,
>   let it be something that is reasonably good at computer graphics, for
>   example Smalltalk.  I've heard people talk about it, but is anyone
>   actually working on a Smalltalk system that generates PostScript (or
>   a Smalltalk that uses NeWS for user interaction)?  I've love to have
>   Smalltalk running on some big machine (a Cray?) with the graphics
>   running on my local workstation.

Well, actually we at PARC/SCL (the Smalltalk group) are doing just that.  It's
not clear at this point just how we are going to make Smalltalk use NeWS - we're
going to try a few alternatives to see what feels best.  One of our goals is to
completely hide PostScript from the application programmers, not because it's an
icky language, but because it doesn't participate in the object world of
Smalltalk.

This is a major change to the structure of the Smalltalk user interface and
graphics primitives.  We don't expect to have it completed anytime soon.

	- Stoney Ballard
	  Xerox PARC NW