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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: On Stack-Based Languages (was Re: on Perl)
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:16:28 +0000, James K. Lowden wrote:

> I believe Keith Packard describes Cairo as PostScript
> without the syntax ...

The PostScript graphics model (even Display PostScript) never progressed 
beyond the concept of putting marks on paper.

While Cairo is clearly inspired by PostScript, it is also clearly an 
improvement on it, adding features specifically to support interactive 
graphics on a display screen, like operators and alpha channels. It also 
has better Unicode support.