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Postscript is pretty neat IMHO and it’s Turing complete. I really appreciated my raytraced page finally coming out of that poor HP laser after an hour or so.
by actionfromafar 11mo ago
Postscript is pretty neat IMHO and it’s Turing complete. I really appreciated my raytraced page finally coming out of that poor HP laser after an hour or so.
- aidenn0 11mo agoI once sent a Sierpinski's Triangle postscript program to a shared printer. It took 90 minutes, and pissed off everybody else trying to print.
- hinkley 11mo agoOne of the very first SVG documents I encountered was a port of the PS Tiger to SVG. It loaded a lot faster than the PostScript Tiger.
- bigfatkitten 11mo agoSounds almost like a fun crypto mining opportunity.
- anthk 11mo agoPostScript can emulate the ZMachine (Zork text adventures and all of infocom) with "zmachine.ps". Look it up at DDG/GG.
- zahlman 11mo agoHow does it do I/O?
- actionfromafar 11mo agoA monad. It’s just a class of abstract Endor Moon or something. Probably you have to send all commands up to the current state to it. :)