Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!h2opolo.ee.lbl.gov!mccanne
From: mccanne@h2opolo.ee.lbl.gov (Steve McCanne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: An Idea to Help Make Postscript Easier to Read (and Write)
Message-ID: <943@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 6 Sep 88 01:48:23 GMT
References: <940@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov
Reply-To: mccanne@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Steve McCanne)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
Lines: 17

In article <940@helios.ee.lbl.gov> forrest@ux1.lbl.gov (Jon Forrest) writes:
[stuff about difficulty of reading PostScript]
>
>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

Van Jacobson thought this was a good idea as well.  He developed a language
called "PreScript" that is a lot like C, and compiles into PostScript.
I helped with the implementation; it should be out for beta testing very 
soon, if not already.  Look for it in comp.sources.misc.

Steven McCanne
mccanne@helios.ee.lbl.gov