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Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript")

From Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript")
Date 2024-03-26 06:20 +0000
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On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:20:51 +1100, David Newall wrote:

> On 7/3/24 16:29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Get rid of the whole graphics API. It doesn’t serve any useful purpose
>> any more.
> 
> PS is a great language but has no obvious use-case that doesn't include
> rendering text and graphics.

There are better graphics APIs now, better suited to, for example, 
interactive on-screen graphics. PostScript, even Display PostScript, never 
progressed beyond the marks-on-paper model.

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Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-06 20:59 -0800
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 05:29 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-07 15:05 -0800
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-07 23:38 +0000
        Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-08 12:00 -0800
          Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-08 20:53 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") David Newall <ghostscript@davidnewall.com> - 2024-03-26 16:20 +1100
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2024-03-25 23:10 -0700
      Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-26 06:20 +0000
        Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2024-05-25 16:07 +0000
          Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-25 22:31 +0000
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-21 07:31 +0000
  Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2024-03-24 20:45 +0000
    Re: Ideas of a new version of PostScript (called "Computer PostScript") David Newall <ghostscript@davidnewall.com> - 2024-03-26 16:19 +1100

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