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From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: IDEA! - A Text And Graphics Formatter WRITTEN IN POSTSCRIPT
Message-ID: <1567@uhccux.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 16:03:20 GMT
References: <6686@ccv.bbn.COM>
Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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From article <6686@ccv.bbn.COM>, by lawrence@bbn.COM (Gabriel Lawrence):
> In article <8802060615.AA20361@M66-080-5.MIT.EDU> mbparker@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes:
> ...
> in harnessing the power of PostScript as a programming language.  This is   
> a viable/interesting idea - so far as I know, the only existing mechanisms for
> parsing PostScript are run-time interpreters.  Just don't ask me to support

PS code enclosed in braces is specified as compiled.  That might mean
pseudo-compilation or compilation to machine code.  I wrote a subset
implementation for PS, to be found in comp.sources.amiga, which compiles
to machine code.  So the remark about interpreters needs qualification.
	Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu