Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe!bkc
From: bkc@sun.soe (Brad Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: An Idea to Help Make Postscript Easier to Read (and Write)
Message-ID: <1322@sun.soe>
Date: 5 Sep 88 19:00:38 GMT
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Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
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From article <940@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, by forrest@ux1.lbl.gov (Jon Forrest):
> I'm a newcomer to Postscript and have been spending lots of time
> 
> Anyway, an idea occurred to me that would help people like me
> read (and eventually write) Postscript. I thought I'd run it by
> this newsgroup to see what you all think.
> 
> What about a "compiler" that converts standard postscript into
> what I'll call infix/function form? In otherwords, the output would

Personally, I don't own an HP calculator. I do most of my work in C.
But I have done an extensive amount of PostScript coding. I like
the odd-ballness of PostScript's 'reverse-polish' notation and I use
the stack quite extensively, especially in ways that neither
C nor Fortran could ever do, or be made to appear to do.

I like it the way it is, and I think that I would get very confused 
by such an idea.

Of course, this is just my personal opinion. I'm sure there are very
good reasons for carying through on this idea.

Brad Clements