Path: csiph.com!goblin2!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!panix!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: A one-page Caesar's Cipher kit, in raw PostScript Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:24:34 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Some absurd concept Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <4ad83125-4dcb-43f0-b6ce-cbd1f7c09645@googlegroups.com> <1e7ad5ed-70b7-4c1b-9720-18419cd0626f@googlegroups.com> <6d982a0e-d47f-4e5b-9a02-fd8e98ddafa9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1474410274 106 166.84.1.5 (20 Sep 2016 22:24:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:24:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Liz: It's actually happened, the entire Internet is a massive game of Redcode X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB XFrom: is a real address Encrypted: double rot-13 User-Agent: Vectrex rn 2.1 (beta) X-Comments: "'Pray that I don't alter the bargain further.' Welcome Darth Google." -- HonorableSoul Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2823 In comp.lang.postscript, Lawrence Oliveiro wrote: > While the PostScript graphics model remains influential, it has been superseded by its many, > much-improved successors, such as Cairo. What's with your line lengths? What's with your proselytizing against Postscript in a Postscript newsgroup? > And with modern, flexible, powerful languages like Python, the PostScript language just > isn't worth using any more. When my printer runs Cairo and Python I'll consider it. In the mean- time, I avoid writing in languages that consider indent levels to be significant. Elijah ------ oh wait, Cairo is just *writing your postscript for you* isn't it?