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PS seems like a nice language. Such a shame it's stuck on the printer: it seems like it would be a good alternative to FORTH in less memory-constrained environm
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
PS seems like a nice language. Such a shame it's stuck on the printer: it seems like it would be a good alternative to FORTH in less memory-constrained environments.
- DonHopkins 10y agoNeWS is a Network extensible Window System developed by James Gosling at Sun in the 80's, which used PostScript not just to draw on the screen (like NeXT), but also (unlike NeXT but like AJAX) to implement entire window managers, user interface toolkits, applications, and intelligent responsive front-ends to networked applications, all in the NeWS window server (like a web browser). NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently: + used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming. + used PostScript graphics instead of DHTML and CSS for rendering. + used PostScript data instead of XML and JSON for data representation. http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/97 http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/97 See the PSIBER and PizzaTool code I posted in the message above for an example of what was possible with NeWS!
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoYes, NeWS was cool. But NeWS no longer exists, sadly.