On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> That said, an interpreter for postscript isn't too hard, compared to > interpreters for other languages. Having everything postfix makes it > *way* easier. Postscript is basically a stack based VM; very similar to Forth. A minimalistic core interpreter could be probably coded by one person in a reasonable amount of time. But to approach anything usable in the real world you will need much more than that, even tho I suspect one could write most of postscript in postscript itself. The obfuscation of the current postscript files comes mostly from the fact that is machine-generated code, meant to be easy to generate and being read only by machines. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev@;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand
