D-Man wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 12:11:11AM +0100, Jack Campin wrote:
> | >(I have been tempted to translate abc[m]2ps to perl, just for the
> | >yuks, and for extra portability. Then it wouldn't have to be
> | >compiled. But I bet I'd get flamed because perl doesn't come
> | >pre-installed on all possible computer systems. ;-)
> |
> | Wouldn't the most portable language for it be PostScript itself?
>
> I once found a web server written in Postscript. It was started
> mainly as an academic challenge and a bet. Since postcript doesn't
> have socket or file access a C wrapper is used to implement HTTP and
> pass the data bewteen ghostscript (the interpreter) and the socket.
>
> Personally Python is my favorite language :-).
Isn't there a programming language named ABC? And shouldn't we all use that?
Frank Nordberg
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