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I read this and it was one of those worthless CS papers that have a lot of verbiage but totally misses the point. The meat is buried in the middle-end of the d
by mannyv 2y ago
I read this and it was one of those worthless CS papers that have a lot of verbiage but totally misses the point.
The meat is buried in the middle-end of the document:
"By now you can probably see the fundamental philosophical difference between PostScript and Interpress. Interpress takes the stance that the language system must guarantee certain useful properties, while PostScript takes the stance that the language system must provide the user with the means to achieve those properties if he wants them. With very few exceptions"
All the rest of it is sort of crap.
TL; DR: Postscript is a programming language that happens to be embedded in a printer and does printer things. Interpress is a PDL.
- com 2y agoI was quite taken by the elision of the formation of Adobe - that particular gap informed quite a bit of my understanding of how PostScript’s choices came to be and led to a bit of rabbit hole brurrowing around the departures from Xerox.
- knuckleheadsmif 2y agoMissed in the history in the article is that John Warnock and Chuck Geschke planned to build a computer/printer turnkey publishing system when they left Xerox. PS was just a piece of it. It was after a Steve Jobs meeting that changed their focus. https://www.content-magazine.com/articles/adobe-founders/ https://www.content-magazine.com/articles/adobe-founders/