Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:16:28 +0000 From: "James K. Lowden" Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: On Stack-Based Languages (was Re: on Perl) Message-Id: <20240418120336.e1ccfcd857488a359614b54b@speakeasy.net> References: <87edbtz43p.fsf@tudado.org> <0d2cnVzOmbD6f4z7nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@brightview.co.uk> <20240408075547.000061e8@gmail.com> <20240415152951.000079ab@gmail.com> <87wmowv9fy.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <20240417080523.00005e99@gmail.com> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.4.3 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64--netbsd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 11 Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!s1-1.netnews.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:16:28 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 1631 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Bytes: 1875 On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:44:44 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > The PostScript graphics model has long been superseded by worthy > successors, like Cairo. Yes and no. I believe Keith Packard describes Cairo as PostScript without the syntax: it shares the same page-display model, but is presented as a set of C functions instead of a language. --jkl