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Old trick. Go search for [postscript snowflake] sometime. Great fun for drawing psychedelic images and/or crashing network printers. (It turns out that .ps i
by eck 14y ago
Old trick. Go search for [postscript snowflake] sometime. Great fun for drawing psychedelic images and/or crashing network printers. (It turns out that .ps is actually an archaic programming language and not just a page description language.)
- biot 14y agoOr even better: http://tog.acm.org/resources/RTNews/html/rtnv6n2.html#art11 http://tog.acm.org/resources/RTNews/html/rtnv6n2.html#art11 Copy the postscript into a file and upload to: http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert.htm http://www.ps2pdf.com/convert.htm
- kika 14y agoPS is basically Forth
- kjhughes 14y agoFair casual observation. More here on the relationship between Forth and Postscript: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthPostscriptRelationship http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ForthPostscriptRelationship
- RodgerTheGreat 14y agoIt's not even really that archaic- concatenative languages just never hit mainstream among programmers. PostScript has built-in datatypes for dictionaries and lists, first-class procedures, closure-like mechanisms, clean, uniform syntax... refreshingly modern for something designed in 1982. I wrote a Forth compiler and VM in PostScript a while back: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Four.Ps/blob/master/four.ps https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Four.Ps/blob/master/four.ps