Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!LLL-CRG.LLNL.GOV!cralle From: cralle@LLL-CRG.LLNL.GOV (Bob Cralle) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Forth and PostScript Message-ID: <8911170630.AA19972@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 17 Nov 89 00:07:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Forth Interest Group International List Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 postscript is a subset of forth. warnock likes to play like it isn't but it is! he brot back (), really {} to surround proceedures in definitions. thus there are two ways to define words the above & /word ... def. for : ... ; healsodidn't want to be identified with a cult language such as forth so he did cutsy things: 'exch' for 'swap'; 'pop' for 'drop'; etc etc etc. it is ironic that the deservedly great language postscript is scurrilessly being damaged by MS & Apple's behavior in creating yet another std. which we don't need. Especially so given adobe in large measure made both MS & Apple. 2-way translators r hard: the '/' no space 'word-name' make your translator have to crack '/word' apart etc. No create-does without jumping thru hoops... bad news all the way. : mul * ; works for ps to forth but not vs. these are all big problems, pity! bob cralle@lll-crg.llnl.gov