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From: rokicki@neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Language rules
Message-ID: <1991May5.215341.283@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 May 91 21:53:41 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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Yes, it is true that much of the problem deals with knowing your
language and dealing with the dynamic scoping.  But remember that
since your PostScript program may well be included into other
people's PostScript programs, or include other people's programs,
a bit more care must be taken than just understanding and working
around the language limitations.  How many BASIC or Pascal programs
have to worry about their variable namespace or resources being
stepped on by other BASIC programs?

-tom