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From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: A Modest Proposal (IFF QuickDraw)
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Date: 17 May 88 17:47:10 GMT
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Michael Portuesi writes:
<With a structured graphics
<standard, it is easy to encode "objects" such as NAND gates or benzene rings.
<With PostScript, trying to interpret such semantic information would be next to
<impossible.

This is a great point; very insightful and forward thinking. Thanks
Michael!

<Note that I am *not* belittling PostScript as a standard for graphics output.
<I think *any* structured graphics program worth using had better produce
<PostScript output.

Sounds perfectly reasonable. PostScript is useful, but we'd be better
off with something like a high level object oriented description language.
Benzene rings...ah, that would be great.
	Doug
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