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From: pallas@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Joe Pallas)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Writing Postscript code....
Message-ID: <1990May30.030703.462@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 May 90 03:07:03 GMT
References: <23683@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In <23683@bellcore.bellcore.com> mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael
O'Dell) writes:

>But by the same token, I have read (but admittedly not
>written much) NeWS code done with the Class system, and
>it certainly doesn't read as awful as some would imply.

The NeWS Class system is best described as an example of an
object-oriented language implemented in PostScript.  Granted, it is an
embedded implementation, so all of PostScript is exposed to the
programmer.  But its very existence is evidence of PostScript's
inadequacy as a programming language.

>Have people been badly burned and are speaking from hard-won
>experience here?

I know I have and am.  I don't know about anyone else.

joe