In message <49d496cc.yviehl9rqvhommxs%...@phonecoop.coop>, MJ Ray
<m...@phonecoop.coop> writes
So where did the above "PDF and PS are programming languages" argument
come from? References, please!
No references, sorry, but I certainly got the impression from the books
I had years ago (PostScript reference manuals) that PostScript was meant
as a programming language.
iirc it's an rpn notation that is actually very similar to Forth, which
definitely is a programming language.
It's merely a strange, domain-specific language the purpose of which is
to describe and lay out a page of paper, but presumably no different
from (if I've got the right language) VHDL which is used to lay out a
printed circuit board. And both of them are in some cases written in
directly by their practitioners, and in other cases are generated by
program generators.
Cheers,
Wol
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