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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)
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:44:44 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:37:47 +0200, David Brown wrote:

> I think I have only ever heard of one person who actually uses
> PostScript for programming by hand, rather than as a print output
> format.  That is Don Lancaster ...

I know, I have seen his site.

The PostScript graphics model has long been superseded by worthy 
successors, like Cairo. I did my own Python binding for Cairo
<https://gitlab.com/ldo/qahirah>, which adds things like vectors, matrices 
and colours as first-class objects--beyond what Cairo itself, as a C-
language-based library, can do.

What I am interested in here is the PostScript language itself, and how it 
can be modernized.