Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!fuug!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: PostScript to HP PCL conversion Message-ID: Date: 17 Jan 91 04:46:44 GMT References: <348@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> <1991Jan16.165436.8636@groucho> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 19 In-reply-to: simon@snake.cs.uidaho.edu's message of 16 Jan 91 16:54:36 GMT In article <1991Jan16.165436.8636@groucho> simon@snake.cs.uidaho.edu (Mike Simon) writes: Tor - investigate a bit before flaming. Well, then it wouldn't be a flame, would it :-). PostScript as a programming language is no more a "programming language than HPGL (HP Graphics Language) or PCL (Printer Control Language). Come on. Are HPGL and PCL Turing equivalent? Aren't they just escape sequence collections (PCL at least)? Actually my flame was caused by the casual use of the "convert" word. You must agree than interpreting PostScript (including fonts, coordinate transforms, halftoning etc) is a bit more complex than interpreting HPGL. -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland