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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: GPPL (was PostScript -> DVI or anything else)
Message-ID: <3470@eos.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 20:43:40 GMT
References: <808@sunkisd.CS.Concordia.CA> <4054@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <4054@ficc.uu.net> cliff@ficc.uu.net (cliff click) writes:
>Postscript is a general purpose programming language (ok, that's stretching
>it a bit :-).
Er, ah?  What's a general purpose programming language (in the context of
graphics)?  Does it different from a "graphics programming language?"
Let's keep the graphics for now, but if it becomes more comp.lang.misc,
remove it. 

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Another gross generalization from

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