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I did a fair bit of PostScript development in NeWS/HyperNeWS and while I really liked PostScript I've never been able to get into Forth - I actually thought tha
by arethuza 7y ago
I did a fair bit of PostScript development in NeWS/HyperNeWS and while I really liked PostScript I've never been able to get into Forth - I actually thought that PostScript was rather like the Common Lisp that the rest of the project used (one of the things I wrote for the project being the glue code in C to link the PostScript world of NeWS to Common Lisp - which is a nice mix of approaches to syntax!).
NB: It was particularly neat that Sun shipped a set of Adobe blue/green/red(?) books with OpenWindows.
- kick 7y agoPostScript does take a lot from Lisp, too. And (kind of) Smalltalk. 'DonHopkins has posted a lot about it on here; I really love hearing him talk about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3ADonHopkins%20postscript&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- arethuza 7y agoI just found this article by Don about HyperNews and related stuff: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4 https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-g...