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PostScript have followed some previous ideas but the most important part is a thing lost in modern software: a programming language to create documents AND appl
by kkfx 4y ago
PostScript have followed some previous ideas but the most important part is a thing lost in modern software: a programming language to create documents AND applications at the same time. A kind of document UI years after Xerox.
Modern publishing software have ditched this approach for another, a fully visually one, formally easier, sometimes easier, but in general limited and limiting.
- orange8 4y agoWhat about HTML?
- kkfx 4y agoHTML is just a markup language, PS is a programming one, NeWS [1] was an X11-alike server PS-based, SUN Pizza Tool a nice demo [2] oh, sure in term of ease of use is a bit awful to write and read, but still it's a "graphics oriented programming language" while HTML just target crafting clickable text with limited extras. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS [2] https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2a7992b4c797 https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...
- digitalsankhara 4y agoInteresting. So NeWS was like display postscript? Which I think was also used in NeXT OS.